The Washington herald., 1914-02-22

ages with its old-tlme neIghbors. Sidor
and Tyre, lying beside II on the shore
and traced 'The Path Of Napoleon
srnni tbv Wla 20 me b sh9 srme,e OF mora
astery far up the side OF Mount Carmel
The Carnelites are little Christian
garrison IN the land OF Islam. In the
course OF 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: Il am
glad those times are no more.
| He was a kind host, but fear he may
still be smiling at a Scriptural lapse on
| my part. He was showing me a cave in
: which Elijah prophesied. when L stupidity
asked where the prophets grave was.
WHY the father corrected me, Elijah
has no grave. He will not die until the
end of the world.
The silent clustered precincts, tenanted
by only twenty-one monks. seemed IKE
the deserted halls of a big summer hotel
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 massa-
cred by the victorious Dejazzar. 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 were per-
mitted to return, more than thirty years
d
gathered and deposited in cave the
bones of the dead. But afterward the re-
mains OF the poor boys of faraway
France found their last resting place in
the pretty garden before the monastery
and the sailors of a passing French war
ship erected a memorial stone with an
iron cross among the palms in the vine
yard OF God.
Napoleon RetreatinE Afoot.
Napoleon,s 4o0-mile retreat from Acre
down the Syrian coast, across the plains
of Palestine and the desert of FL Tfh, in
a tropic summer. was an anticipation In
miniature of the retreat from Moscow.
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
0sf tbs winter aes IN t ths 1 fSe
second he was to lose the empire 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 a hand
some saddle. but the general-in-chief
said: Mount! There is nothing too good
inquiring which horse Napoleon reserved
for himself. he replied with blow from
his whip: Every one afoot; myself first
Of ALL"
The fields were fred to cut Off pursu-
ers. but a few Syrians and the Arabs of
Samaria, lurking behind the stones and
bushes on the hillsides, peppered the flee
ing French, singing them to exasperated
and mutinous temper. Some soldiers for
got the obligations OF humanity toward
their sick and helpless comrades, and an
CRY murmurs arose against them for de-
laying the retreat
The Plague of Jaffa.
Arrived at Jaffa, many of the garrison
Napoleon left there in his advance on
Acre were found in the hospital, some
with tho plague" Those who were not
plague-stricken were panic-stricken in
the presence of the hideous malady. To
arouse them from their despair Napoleon
went among them, and there is a dis
puted story Of his touching plague pa