The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-11

STANDS IN the UiHSl o. ilo"'Th H'uS'H
and shops. Its masonry is 50 solid that
a ton Of dynamite would BE required ~
dislodgc it
Mumnnes Draw Soldiers.
At the time of the French revolution
it was practically intact. but lis uS"
rs = fortress and the pounding u! can
non against il turned IT into IN" piS-
turesque ruin II is '"-day. our SOL
diers are exploring that old circus and
realizing the grandeur that was ROM"
more kecnly than if they were cram
ming Latin hack homo.
You positively mustn't miss the
rnummies." / was told by my soldier
friends in this same city. :" one day
[ went with two boys to see the MUM
mics. There .sIan ancient church built.
centuries ago. outside the city walls.
whom the town was just beginning l"
nircrow it's walls. The excuse for IN"
walls had not disappeared. however ana
local wars and foriyS among the fcudu
gentry beat hard on that church. Scr-
rral times during the years IN" Chur"h
was burned TO tn" ground. "ut II was
always rebuilt according Ia its original
plans.
The last time II was rebuilt was about
4 hundred and fifty years ago. ana II
was whom tho excavations w"r" being
made that the famous mu'nm'"S w"r'.
discovered. They were dug ny cut ut
one nf thr oldest corners ~ IN" chhr"h-
Yard and must have passed from life IN
tho fourteenth or the dft"~ulh century.
Something in the chalky nature Of tn"
su,l preserved them from dlSin;"efh' l"li
and they remain sun rather dlsaEr""-
.,LIc and rrrwsumc likcu.SSCS Of tn"
/ original selves.
To seq them We descended n flight Of
! worn stone steps into the inkT DARKNESS
: NJ crvpt. An old. old cron" Of wo-
man. herself half Il mummy. led tn"
way. a sort OF & dark lantern III h"r
hand. She has told III" story OF tn"
,nummics several times Il day Tor :"
many wears that she could probably re-
| ri,c /, without troubling herself I" wake
out OLA nap. She can even r"ci, J.
liz q iargon which remotely resembles
English.
f! Visit Napoleon's Tomb
THO numnics, about twcnr.' "f th"m.
ny, hung IN like 81 many old 'lrihcS.
a-ound tho walls OF :hc crypt. s"r.l' are
, r,crc parchricn; shells &C bodies. theirs
; r,,,in racs Of rlcIhia- ana even rings.
| Tho old. old cronc turned! her lantern
! ,h, the mummics one ny rn". Here
| uos q priest, she said. %oa cnulG ell
Nv his soutaire Hero WAS Il woman
| who had died In childbirth. her Tiny baby
! buried with her. Here WAS IL whole fam
! ny, mother and four children. VIII" bad
died Of poison. perhaps mushrooms,
| This man was hanged You could tell
"I-ch! Let's look at the mex, one. ma
mere" VIC implnrcd. The n"x' one ~"s
worse. II rataI"riic. mlfI"d alive.
What in the world makes YOU cant
: m look ut such things ! asked wh"i
,rn emerged in time to meet another
GROUP Of soldiers bent on tho same err
rand.
! VIII" they said don't you think :
is terribly interesting /" look AZ T""rl'
who actually lived 81" years ago" Those
n,umnies are worth a franc any day
Two Sundays brfor" lief; Franc" l
.nc,t the afternoon in tn" Hotel 'l's In
! valtdcs whcr. NAPOLEON l!r>,:u his >Tan-
u. tcmh. now completely buried N
| .andhoes In spit" If that fact. how
! cycr tho chapel WAS filled with Ann: =
can soldiers gazing rapt!y nj III" tomb
! ,rey could not sec. hut which th'N kh""
brlS the ashes rf the i;v"#i ""nGurr",
More soldiers w"r" III TN" larE" r"ur'
ward now Il museum at captured Car
man guns. cannon. ''mInnicS" and shat
tered airrlanrs. Their, arc III burned
and Charrcd skeletons "r several H"n-
| rclIns and in the very cent?" If 'hr
collection. rs If is cnplur. tn" remains
Yearly intact. Of Guym, ,n'r$ laE"rit3
fighting plane. his cid Charles which