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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
The Widow of Main

As I was quitting EsdraeIon l saw
the village of Main, squatting in the
very Path of Napoleon near the foot
of Mt. Tabor, a welcome oasis for the
soul in the midst of all that waste of
war. At the sight of that poor, little
hamlet the mind turned gladly from
scenes that speak of 200 generations of
slaughter. The memory was recalled
from hate to love, from the taking of
life to the giving of life, for there in
the gates of Main Jesus restored the
Widows son and dried the widow S
tears.
How that kindly deed shines out in
the dark cruelty of that ageless field
of strife, What are the triumphs of
Ahab Gideon. David, Deborah and Bar
ak, Saladin and Napoleon on the Plain
of Esdraelon beside this victory over
sorrow and death, and what the bloody
trophies of battle beside the smile of
gratitude and gladness of the widow
OF Main, When I entered the vale of
Nazareth the message of peace which
the little town sent out into a warning
world held new and clearer mean
ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
The Cockpit of Asia

The young champion of the west.
fresh from his victory in the cockpit OF
Europe, was ready to enter the lists in
this cockpit of Asia. Lifting his glass
his strategic eye swept the smoking.
field of strife. In the west rose Mt Car
mel by the sea, and to the south the
nils of Samaria. over to the east,
where the mountains of Gilead come
down to the river Jordan, the Moslem
enemy was encamped in a black mass
OF camels hair tents.
AT the foot Of Tabor General Kleber,
with no hope or thought that the gem
eral- chief was coming to his rescue
was stubbornly holding back IA big
horde of mounted men as they ad-
Yanced from their camp and furiously
strove to crush his little force against
the base of the mountain The Turkish
dead lay in windrows all about him.
But for hours Kleber had been bat
Ting with despair. He wished only TO
break through the Turkish lines or a
least see his brave but exhausted band
die like soldiers rather than be butch
cred like sheep. Soon he must fire his
last cartridge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Napoleon Retreating AfOot

Napoleon's 400-mle retreat from Acre
down the Syrian coast, across the plains
of Palestine and the desert of Ell Tihs
in tropic summer, was an anticpa-
tion in miniature of the retreat from Mos
cow. 1t was the last time he was destined
to turn his back to an enemy until his
flight over another desert, a desert of
snow in a Russian winter In this first
retreat he lost the empire of the east,
in the second he was to lose the en-
pire of the west.
On his return march to Egypt he or
dered all the horses to be given over to
the sick and wounded. A grenadier
among them hesitated lest he might soil
handsome saddle but the general-in-
chief said, Mount. There is nothing too
good for a brave soldier An ordnance
man inquiring which horse Napoleon re-
served for himself. he replied with Il
blow from his whip, Everyone afoot
myself first of ALL"
The fields were fired to cut off pur-
suers, but a few Syrians and the Arabs
of Samaria lurking behind the stones and
bushes on the hillsides peppered the flee
ing French, stinging them to an exasper-
ated and mutinous temper. Some SOL
diers forgot the obligations of humanity
toward their sick and helpless comrades.
and angry murmurs arose against them
for delaying the retreat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Battle of AhOukin

In a month the enemy was upon Ma
poleon, to challenge even his refuge in
Egypt from the disaster in Syria. A fleet
landed large Turkish army on the
candy promontory of Aboukir-Ah- -boor-
keer, the last syllable carrying the ac-
eent--where the French, by a rapid move
ment, caught them and penned them up.
OF the $1,000 Turks who entered the bat
tie. 5000 are said to have found their
graves in the sands or in the waters. But
AboulSir had avenged Acre, and Napol-
cons victory there would serve to eclipse
his retreat from Syria.
While making some arrangements with
Sidney Smith under a flag of truce after
the battle, Napoleon sent him chest OF
coffee and a case of brandy, and Smith
sent him in exchange a batch of Euro
pean newspapers, only six weeks old.
Heavens" he cried as he read one OF
the papers "the fools have lost Italy. All
the fruits of our victories are gone.
must leave Egypt
The truth is he had wished to leave
ever since he came. From the day Nelson
sank the French fleet he had been no
more than prisoner in desert. The
bad news from home determined him
TO delay no longer the attempt to make
a wild dash to France and to his des-
tiny.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Nazareth After 1900 Years

Nazareth lies in pretty mountain
favine, with schools and orphanages
and hospitals, the gifts of the Chris
tian world to the boyhood village of
Jesus. looking fondly down upon it from
the surrounding nights. While the sites
of the home, the carpenter shop and
the synagogue of Jesus are cherished
traditions among the several sects. the
wars have not left standing a wall that
stood In his lifetime. But all about are
the eternal hills on which the eyes OF
the boy looked when the dream that
fills the world came to him and up
and down their sides wind the un-
changing paths tread by him.
And Nazareth today is a lowly VIII
lage of simple peasants, as it was 1000
years ago with never a great man in it,
The villagers are mostly Christians of
the racial type made familiar to us by
tile Syrian immigrants, and form the
most attractive community saw in all
the Holy Land. They have trees and
flowers and dooryards; yes. and Amer
lean sewing machines, although the
housewives run them by hand seated on
the floor, Oriental fashion.
The pretty faces of the women are
unveiled and not painted and tattoed,
as in Jenin and other Mahometan
places. AT the Virgins Fountain, the
only water supply in the town now as
in the olden time, the beauty of the
girls and young mothers, who came to
iii their water jugs even as Mary must
have come, is really striking. To that
fountain "the Path of Napoleon led
after the battle of Mt Tabor, and there
he received the homage of the peo-
pie
In the Monastery of the Annunciation
he slept. where, traditionally, stood the
home of the Holy Family-where 'the
word was made flesh There the visi-
tor is conducted in cavernous region
to the marble slab, worn smooth by
pious lips, where the angel paused be-
fore Mary, and on to the Kitchen OF
the Virgin" The fathers of the monas-
terry have treasured through the cen
tTry the bed and room where the young
warrior rested, amid the scenes hall
lowed by the youth of the Prince of
Peace, whose sword was of the spirit
and whose kingdom was not of this
world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
The Town That Stopped Napoleon

When entered the ironclad gate and
had passed through the double walls of
the town of Acre. nothing more warlike
than a drove of camels stood in my
way as they lay in the vestible of the
town with few begging lepers and
cripples. Through maze of stone,
through narrow, twisted, yaulted. but
surprisingly clean, old streets, bazar
lined, L went to the rampart's that look
seaward. Not a ship was In port
When the Moslems in their fanatical
frenzy tore down the great city of the
Crusaders they filled the ancient, har-
Dor with the ruins, and now Haifa has
all the commerce of the region. Behind
me lay petrified town, with popu-
lation perhaps Of 10000, all fast asleep
but still talking good deal in their
sleep.
Down at a corner of the wall rose the
lighthouse on the foundations of the
Philistine temple of Beelzebub. On the
opposite wall the Tour Maudite was
built with Judas 80 pieces of silver! But
Dejezzar's tower is the loftiest of all In
Acre. 1t is the minaret of the mosque
which that pious old butcher reared to
Allah on lines Of his own designing, and
] am bound in fairness to admit that he
was as clever an architect as ever cut
a throat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
The Plague at Jaffa

Arrived at Jaffa, many of the garri-
son Napoleon left there in MS advance
on Arce We're found in the hospital, some
with "the plague" Those who We're not
panic-stricken were panic-stricken IN fne
presence of the hideous malady TO
arouse them from their despair Napoleon
went among them. and there is disputed
story of his touching a plague patient to
inspire the courage of the terrlheo IN
mates of the hospital.
I'm few hours the Turks VIII oe mere.
he repeated to the unfortunates as ne
moved along. Let all those who have
the strength rise and come with us. they
shall be carried on litters and horses.
All but about so, perhaps all but %,
struggled up and swelled the numbers of
the sick already burdening the retreat
ing column
Napoleon was charged for long time
with having adopted the principle of eu-
thenasia toward those who could not
move. and of having directed the apoth-
ecary to administer to them a fatal dose
Of laudanum. Bourrienne says he did,
but Marmont, Andreossi and other wit
nesses testify that he did not. Sidney
Smith himself tells of finding the sick
still alive three days after the army
left Jaffa. The weight of Judgment now
is that Napoleon restrained the instructive
promptings OF nature and, observing the
scruples of our civilization, did nothing
to hasten the end of that little band OF
French left alone with the tortures of
their disease and the tortures of their
fears in the pest hospital at Jaffa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
The Empire of Christ
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
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field of David. over there, close by The
Path of Napoleon" the sun is baking the
wretehed novels where the witch of Endor
told Sauls tragic fortune, While toward
the south rise the hills where Jonathan
was laid low by the Philstines and Saul
fell on his sword moving David to ex-
claim: How are the mighty fallen!''
From the summit of Mt. Tabor, above
tile spot where I<leber was beset with
his back to the mountain wall, Deb
orah saw the stars in their courses
fighting against Sisera and his 900
iron chariots and sang her song of
cruel victory. 1t was there on that
plain, in that coliseum of gladiatorial
combats, that stadium where through
uncounted generations humanity has
been the football, that the last pitched
battle of the. Crusades was fought.
There, too, the last battle of all, the
finish fight between the hosts of good
and evil, is to be fought, for part
of the plain is "the place which is
called in the Jewish tongue Armaged-
doh. that is the Valley of the Megid-
do"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22

pire of the east A little town. that
miserable inudhole," as he called 1t, had
barred "The Path of Napoleon to the
conquest OF the orient. All his life ne
murmured, Il missed my fortune at st.
town with a few begging lepers and
undid me-"
Folding his tent like the Arab he 81
lently stole away in the night. But "a
messenger from the exultant Sidney
Smith overlook him with this taunting
letter: Gould you have thought that the
poor prisoner in the temple, an unfor-
tunate for whom you refused even for
moment to give yourself any concern,
would compel you in the midst OF the
sand of Syria to raise the siege of mis-
cradle, almost defenseless, town." At the
same time the sailor was boasting in his
report to London that "the plain of Naza-
reth is the boundary of Bonaparte's ex-
traordinary career"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
"The Vineyard of God"

/ left Acre sleeping the sleep of the
ages with it's old-t neighbors, Sidon
and Tyre, lying beside it on the shore,
and traced THE Path of Napoleon
through wild orchids and fields of fra
grant thyme to the big Carmelite mon
astery far UP the side of Mt. Carmel.
The Carmelites are a little Christian
garrison in the land of Islam. In the
course of the centuries they have seen
their home destroyed seven or eight
times by the foes of the cross, and the
Bagdad monk who showed me about
said. II am glad those times are no
more"
He was kind host, but I fear he
may still be smiling at scfiptural
lapse on my part. He was showing me
cave in which Elijah prophesied,
when stupidity asked where the pro-
phets grave was. "Whyw the father
corrected me, Elijah has no grave.
He will not die until the end Of the
world"
The silent. cloistered precincts. ten
anted by only 81 monks, seemed like
the deserted halls of a big summer no.
tel out of season. The monastery served
Napoleon as a military hospital, and
when he retreated he left under guard
here all who were too sick to accom-
pany the army on its long, hard march
The Bagdad monk said there were as
many as 1000, and that all were mas
sacred by the victorious Dejezzar BY
the records of history. however, there
were only a few left behind by the
army
The monastery was long closed
against the Carmelites, and when they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
In the Path of Napoleon Years After His Dolunfon

Mr.. Morgan carries his readers with
him today on his journey In the Path
of Napoleon" to the great "Plain of
Esdraelon or Jezreel, the prize ring of
the nations for 5000 years and more:
TO the historic battlefield of Mt. Ia
Dor; to Nazareth, where the young
warrior slept on the traditional site
of the boyhOOd home of the Prince
OF Peace; back again to the -t.''t---,
walls of Acre; then along the 400
mile retreat to Egypt, Napoleon's last
retreat until his flight from Moscow
to the pest hospital of Jaffa. to the
battle of AbOulSir, and finally over
his bold course through the Mediter-
ranean, where he successfully ran
British blockade and landed once more
on the shore of France.
1t is a complete story in itself and
crowded with memorable scenes and
stirring adventures.
DATES AND EVENTS-AGE 29-5o.
April 9, l799-Battle at the Horns Of
Hattin.
April 10. 17o9-Battle at Cana
April l6, 1799-Battle of Mt. Tabor.
March II. I799-Retreat from Acre.
March 81 1799-Left Jaffa.
June II, 1799-Entered Cairo.
July 70, lf99-Battle of Abouktr.
August %, 1799-Flight to France.
October Z, 1799-Sailed from A5aecio.
When Napoleon marched into the
mountains of Galilee in the month Of
April, 1893, to stem the tide of Turks
pouring down upon him from Damas-
Gus, he matched 1000 men against 30
600. He dared take no larger number
from the siege of Acre, where Tur-
kish troops and British ships we're
holding the town against him.
The first shock of battle reverberated
about the Horns of Hattin, where Cen
eral Junot, with only 300 men in a
square withstood an advancing column
of 1000 Turkish horsemen Next KIe-
ber's infantry met and repelled q large
body of cavalry at Cana, where L
Greek priest shows the stone Jars in
which the water was turned into Wine
for the wedding feast
The Turks were entering the valley
of the Jordan when Napoleon himself
struck out along the bride path that
leads from Acre up into Nazarett,
where seeing the smoke of battle curl
ing about the heights of the town, ne
spurred his horse to the scene of COM
bat Descending between Mt. Tabor
and the Mountain of the Precpitation
down the cliff to which the unbelieving
Nazarenes threatened to cast the pro-
phet who was not without honor save
among his own people, he looked out
upon the historic Plain of Esdraelon or
Jezreel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Running the Blockade

Pooling Smith and his scouts. he stole
aboard vessel in the night as she lay
off a lonely desert shore. With 500 men
and a few pieces of artillery and four
frigates and with less than $3500 in his
chest, he set sail, leaving Kleber in
command to await the inevitable doom
of the army of Egypt.
Since he could not be an Alexander in
the east he might yet be Charlemagne
in the west-if fortune did not betray
him as he lodged through British block
ade of the Mediterranean so close that
letter seldom passed.
For six weeks he was the sport Of the
winds and was fairly blown into the har-
Dor of Ajaccio. But Ajaccio was no
longer the port of his dreams and his
ambitions. At the first favoring breeze
he sailed away, never again to smell the
scented fields of his youth or look on his
native mountains
AT last when he was in sight of the
French shore, the lookout aloft cried a
warning of many sails ahead They
must belong to the enemy. and captain
and crew were fearful of capture. But
Napoleon pointed out that while the sun
set was lighting up the British sails it
left their own in the shadow. 1--WE see
them but they can't see us.
Bourrienne says the night was filled
with terror the years could not effaae
from his memory. He tells us that Ma
poleon alone kept his head and that his
commanding voice rang out over the
ship, Spread all sail, Crowd on all sail.
All hands aloft, Away with cowardly
fears. Every man to his post. Head
northwest! To the northwest
Copyright, 1894, by James Morgan.)
Next Sunday: Napoleon ruler of France
at 904The extraordinary story of the
bloodless revolution of Brumaire, in which
Napoleon picked UP the loose reins Of
power-How he employed the death Of
Washington to serve his ends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
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We're permitted to return, more than SO
years after the slaughter of the help
less, they gathered and deposited in a
cave the bones of the dead. But after
ward the remains of the poor boys of
far away France found their last rest
ing place in the pretty garden before
the monastery and the sailors of
passing French warship erected a me-
mortal stone with an iron cross among
the palms in the vineyard of God"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22

we slipped together some good Turkish h
coffee. In another monastery of the
Greek faith Is the only monument
found of the Napoleonic siege, a memo
rial tablet to that Major Oldfield of the
British marines, whose daring charges
in the sorties against the French moved
Napoleon to admiration and at least to
bury him with full military honors, as
the inscription duly records.
There are few Christian in Acre and
l heard that even these do not venture
to show themseles at the feast OF
Ramadan. Tourists are a rarity, there
being no hotel and nothing but a vast.
cheerless eastern caravansary, a khan.
But the Sultan has large and
crowded boarding house at Acre for the
special accommodation of those who
disturb the repose of the Sublime Porte.
This is a stockade rather than a prison,
and behind II ] saw as fine array of
picturesque conspirators as any operate
stage ever presents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Tie line er HaNa1ce

trick of nature, lured the soldiers to cool
ing waters that vanished at their ap-
proach. Maddened by heat and thirst,
some threw down the litters of the sick
and killed themselves before the eyes of
Napoleon. Yet, with flags flying and
bands playing, the sadly reduced army
of Syria entered Cairo, as if in triumph.
by the Babel Nasir, "the gate of victory"
II have razed the palace of Dejezzar and
the ramparts of Acre. Napoleon pro-
claimed to the Egyptians; mot stone
remains upon another" Bourrienne looked
up In amazement as his chief dictated
that bulletin, but only to be chided for
his righteousness: My dear fellow, you
are a simpleton. You do not understand
this business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
An Historic Field

Mt, Tabor is the most historic among
all Napoleon's extraordinary battlehelds.
That plain OF Esdraelon has been the
prize ring of the nations of the east
through 5000 years that are told, and we
know not how much longer through ages
untold
l made my tour of the field from Jenin,
the most Moslem town / visited in
Palestine, and where my little German
hotel was like a fortress in the land Of
the enemy. 1t was strange sensation
TO stand beside the village mosque or
Jenin, looking at the neighboring town OF
Nazareth on the height across the valley
as the soft radiance of the setting sun
streamed upon it's roofs and hear the
muzzein whining his call to evening
prayer, challenging the faith of the Chris
tians with the avowal that there is no
god but God and that Mahomet is his
prophet.
AS | drove down into the valley in the
early morning by a mere track, the plain
of Esdraelon lay before me like a relief
map. The smoke of the locomotive rose
close beneath the hills of Nazareth as the
morning train moved toward Damascus,
and a branch with tri-weekly train SER
vice stretched its bands of steel across
the great plain to Jenin and beyond on
the yet unfinished line to Jerusalem. AND
The trains of antiquity, the camel trains,
coursing tediously along the old cara
van route to Damascus, by which the
children of the east poured down upon the
children of Israsl.
When Jezebel Reigned
clump of trees on the right In the
shadow of Mt. Gilboa, marked the stu
flowing fountain, where, rallying TO Cid
cons trumpet call, the invincible 300 quail
fled as war dogs, by tapping up the water
dog fashion with their tongues. ana over
vhelmed the Midianites and Amalekltes
although they came as grasshoppers foi
multitude. 1 passed by the huts of Zerin
the once royal city of Jezreel, where IRON
the window of her ivory palace queen
Jezebel, that byword among women
looked out with hard, covetous eyes upon
Naboth's vineyard over there where MI
Gilboa still shows the wine presses eui
in its rock side. Again she looked Will
terror to see the vengeful Jehu In MS
chariot furiously rushing down from the
devouring dogs.
mountains of Gilead to deliver her to the
Here in the plains lies the first battle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
A Sure Proof

From the Baltimore American
Belle-That fellow Jones has no inher-
ent chivalry in his nature.
Nell-How do you know?
Belle-Did you notice how he sidled into
the parlor and what shrinking, appr,-
hensive look he gave to see if any mis-
tletoe was hanging around?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Appeared Just the Same

From the New York Globe.
celebrated vocalist was in . motor
car accident one day. A paper. after re-
cording the accident. said:
I'VE are happy to state that he was
able to appear the following evening In
three pieces
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Seen in Acre

With the kindly hospitality of his
order a Franciscan father climbed with
me to the roof of his monastery ana
explained the pretty panorama-includ-
ing the Mount of Richard Occur de
Lion and Napoleon's headquarters out
in Dejezzars country villa-after which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
Bluffing the Egyptians

For nine hot summer days the army
carried its sick and wounded over the
desert into Egypt. The mirage, that cruel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22

Amenities and Asperities
When Napoleon returned to the gate
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Fashion Fads

Variety in the com bination of styles
has never been greater than now.
Fans are likely TO be more in vogue
during the summer than they have
been for a long time.
The influence of the styles of 1910
and 1880 is shown on the day dresses
of today.
Earrings are very popular again ow-
ing TO Queen Marys fondness for
them.
Fash onable men and women now
go in evening clothes to the moving
picture shows in the West End of
London.
new trOuser skirt has been Gre
ated TO permit freedom of movement
on the golf course.
The new summer tango petticOats
are made of very fine batiste accordi-
on pleated and edged with narrow val.
lace.