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Things You Vant to Know
The) Battle of
Waterloo.
WASHINGTON BYWAYS
THE BEE: OMAILV. SATURDAY, JUNE IS, 1H10.
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Recollect the Honorable 'William O. Con
rad of MonUnit He's the man who about
two tmzt ago startled the country by an
nouncing the fact of his existence and
casually mentioning that hit would Ilka to
bo vice president of tha United States.
Nobody outside of Montana had ever
heord of Conrad before. That was where
Mr. Conrad had It on other folks of vice
presidential size. Most of them go from
the vice presidency to obscurity; Mr. Con
rad thought It would be a (rest stunt to
ccme from obscurity to the vice presi
dency. And ho came, but not quite to the vice
presidency. Being a regular Montana plu
tocrat, with a slouch hat, democratic ways
and a pile of scads as tall as the Wash
ington monument. Mr. Conrad's vice presi
dential campaign convinced him that he
liked politics pretty well. Expensive? Yes,
rather; but what difference does that
make to the horny-banded son of fifteen
or twenty good, clean Montana millions?
And so Mr. Conrad Is running for sen
ator this year. He has come to Washing
ton to announce his fell purpose and he
says there la a good chance of the state
going democratlo this year.
. The Honorable "Tom" Carter, who now
represents Montana In the senate, hasn't
as much monef as Mr. Conrad, but he Is
In the way of getting congress to pass a
bill appropriating $30,000,000 to carry on ir
rigation works In the west, and his sup
porters figure that If It passes It will dis
tribute Just as much money In Montana as
'""could possibly be extracted from Mr. Con
' fad's campaign chest. Senator Carter has
. a set of paint-brush whiskers that ought
to have been copyrighted by Uncle Bam,
and If he would tie his trousers down with
a string around the bottom of his foot he
could step right Into any cartoon and pass
himself off as Uncle Sam without being
suspected. And they do say that Mr. Con
rad. Is developing a situation In Montana
' that promises to moke It necessary for
Senator Carter to do the Unele Sam stunt
with painful persistency during the next
( few months.- - ' "
Bluejackets In the United State navy
will be well provided (or in their old age
and the government will be saved hun-
Flavoring Vegetables, Herbs, Spices.
Many flavorings are used in meat dishes,
some of whloh are familiar to ail cooks
' onions, carrots, turnips and garlic being
' perhaps ' the most widely known. Butter,
'-too, i'lisy be regarded as one of the most
common seasonings, and of course makes
tho dish richer. Meat extract Is also used
( for flavoring many meat dishes and other
'.foods, as are also, though less commonly,
similar extracts made from clams or other
"sea food." The following list includes
these with various otters, a number of
Which It Is convenient to keep always on
-hand: Onions, carrots, green peppers, par-
. snips,' turnips, tomatoes, fresh canned or
(dried; celery tops and parsley, either fresh
lor, dried; sage, savory, thyme, smcet marjo
ram, bay leaf, garlic, lemon rind, vinegar,
tapers, pickles, olives; currant Jelly, curry
powder, cloves, pepper corns, celery seed.
Mneat extract. Chill sauce, pepper sauce, or
some similar hot or sharp sauce, and some
vklnd of good commercial meat sauce. Some
Mints regarding the use of such flavorings
Aollowj
FLAVOR OP FRIED VEGETABLES.
1 ' Most of the stews, soups, braised meats
'and pot roasts are very much improved If
r liie flavoring vegetables which they con
' fain, such as carrots, turnips, onions, cel
ery, or green peppers, are fried In a little
fat before being cooked with meat This
peed not complicate the preparation of the
"meat or Increase the number of utensils
ed. for tle meat Itself is usually seared
DaughterslivLaw Ieed Not
Wear Crepe for-Mourning
-A daughter-in-law need not put on crepe
-at the death of a member of her hus
band's family, for etiquette demands of
her a shorter" time of observance of the
i bereavement and more latitude in matters
.octal.
. She Is supposed to "wear black for six
'.months, but after the ertd of three she
may accept invitations, except to' large,
formal functions. She Is not permitted to
go to dances, however small, but dinners.
. luncheons, bridge parties, the theater and
opera are amusements she can enjoy. As
ahe is not supposed to go without her hus
band, he of necessity goes with her and his
mourning la denoted by black clothes Only.
A man In mourning for parent, sister or
child should use white gloves in the even
i lug when wearing his dresa clothea. bufc In
tha davtlme his glovea should be black.
A woman mourning (irmcnu mr
uJMaw" parent or chlld my pur
i If ll
rfli for the house, dull finished materials
being selected. Any trimming used must
be of white English crepe.
At the end of six months a woman wear
Ing black for a member of her husband's
family may go Into black and white and
the light' colors of second mourning. These
'are purple, lavender and gray. StrlcUy
apeaking. she is not suposed to wear white
hut there is so much latitude In this
lrectlori that lace for summer frocks Is
permitted.
man is not expected to go into black
Ji the 61 nth of a member of his wife's
t
ilf, Ilrt does wear a mourning Dana
iia left arm. but this emblem may be
aisrarded at the end of six months. While
wealing tha band he 1 supposed to limit
dreds of thousands of dollars each year It
congress enacts Into law a bill suggested
by Secretary Meyer and reported favor
ably from the senate committee on naval
affairs.
Mr. Meyer has long been at work upon a
plan which would Insure a permanent and
efficient force, but which also would take
care of the sailors after they had given
the best years of their life to the govern
ment. It Is not possible to do this under
existing law and the result Is that an
enormous sum ls,belng expended annually
for the purpose of recruiting, outfitting
and transporting men to take the place of
efficient men who leave the service be
cause of the uninviting prospect when they
become old.
Under the terms of the bill suggested by
Secretary Meyer and reported favorably
by the senate committee, an enlisted man
who has been In the service sixteen years
may apply for retirement with pay equal
to two-fifths of the amount received by
blm at the time application for retirement
Is made. Bluejackets who serve twenty
five years shall be entitled to retirement
at three-fifths pay and those who serve
more than twenty-five years shall be en
titled to retire with three-quarters pay,
$9.50 per month In lieu of rations and cloth
ing and $6.25 a month In lieu of quarters,
fuel and light.
Provision Is also made for men who re
main In the service ten years and less
than sixteen years and who are Incapaci
tated through Injury or disease incident to
thelr service. Such men, according to the
Meyer plan, mBy be placed on the retired
list after examination by a board of sur
vey, their pay to be determined by multi
plying three one-hundredtha of the pay
they receive at the time of application by
the whole number of years of honorable
service to their credit.
Secretary Myer Is confident that the pro
visions outlined above would hold the men
In the service, thereby Insuring an efficient
and permanent force and also would place
out of the service men who have outlived
their usefulness. Statistics gathered by
the Navy - department discloses that - the
average bluejacket Is of little use after he
has been In the service twenty-five years.
over in fat, and the vegetables can be
cooked In the same fat before the browning
of the meat.
ONION JUICES.
Cook books usually say that onion Juice
bhoulrt be extracted by cuttl ,g an onion In
two and rubbing the cut surface against a
grater. Considering how hard It la to wash
a grater, this method has 'its drawbacks.
Small amounts of Juice may be obtained In
the following simple way; Peel the onion
and extract a few drops of Juice by press
ing one side with the dull edge of a knife.
' QREEN PEPPERS.
The flavor of green peppers gives an ac
ceptable variety. The seed should always
be removed. The peppers should be chopped
and added to chopped meat or other meat
dishes. ' Meat mixed with bread crumbs
may be baked in the pepper shells and the
stuffed peppers served as a separate dish.
himself to black ties and black shoes, but
custom permits him wearing tan shoe in
warm weather, and if his ties are dull gray
and other Inconspicuous colors he will. not
bo criticised. If he prefers, out of courtesy
to his wife, to go Into mourning his clothes
should be black and shirts for daytime
black and white. At the end of six months
he may leave off black, adopting the left
arm band for the remainder of the year.
ROSANNA SCHUYLER.
A Dyspeptic Pessimist
The people who think only of themselves
generally have very Uttle to think about
Disappointment is the black sheep of
the Hope family.
Unfortunately Dame Fortune has an old
maid alster-lnlaw.
There are some men who take their
pleasures for business reasons.
The things that cost us the most are
sometimes the things that make us feel
pretty cheap.
The matrimonial agency proves that even
Cupid la going Ir.to the mall order business.
How we all hate the people who have
already 'said the bright things we were
going to say!
There is no such thing as a perfect man.
The nearest approach Is the man who Is
willing to acknowledge his faults.
The woman who marries a widower al
ways feels like going to a Spiritualist me
dium to get, few pointers from bis flret
wife.
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The Text rhlllpplans IV, 8-8.
Paul had been the teacher of those to
whom he is writing. Near the close of his
letter he Is saying, "If I rhould choose a
last word to give you, that word would be
'think,' and If another word Is permitted.
that word would be 'do.' Finally, brethren,
meditate and act."
We are In a world where many are
criticised because they act without think
ing, and where many complain because so
much meditation delays, diminishes ac
tion. A proper proportion should be main
tained between thought and activity. They
are the "two wings on which we rise to
heights of usefulness and honor, the two
feet on which we come bounding into the
arena to try our strength with our ad
versary, the two hands with which we grasp
opportunity." If we are masters of these
we are masters of ourselves. Gladstone
ssld, "My master Is vlthln me." Ills
master was a trained conscience, demand
ing a multitude of public acts and utter
ances, balanced by almost unparalleled
mental activity. We each have a master
within. If- this master Is trained to right
thinking and right doing we will be de
cided, direct, moderate, concentric and
consecrated. The world needs men of
decision. Alexander says that he con
quered the world by ""not delaying."
England's great premier once stopped the
Irish mail at Chester In order to reach
London on ' an important mission. The
signal man feared to do it The premier
said, "Show me the lever and I will do
it" Right thought helps us to know the
right levers, tmd the habit of acting upon
the right gives courage to pull them.
Decision and directness are first cousins.
"The way to preach a sermon," said a
great educator, Is to "walk up to the text
then walk around the text and then walk
through the text and the whole people
listen best when you are walking through
the text. Decision and directness make
for clearness and economy, avert wars and
disasters, build cities and nations and all
because men are thinking aright and doing
aright
Right thinking and right doing lead to
moderation In all things. Excess Is al-
Types That We
BY LAFAYETTE PARKS.
"One thing I like about June Is the
sweet girl graduates," Father murmurs in
a romantic tone of voice, as the lamp of
wisdom swings into the front room to
illuminate the day's events for the benefit
of his parent
. "She certainly is there with the class,"
agrees Son, puffing contentedly on a cork
Up.
"Travel the wide world o'er and you
can't find the equal of the American col
lege girl," declares Father, with patriotic
enthusiasm.
"The high brow skirt Is sure the candy
kid," further admits Son. "When she gets
upon the platform, unties the blue ribbon,
unrolls her manuscript and reads her little
piece that she composed all by herself, you
will please note that little Brlghteyes Is
all there with the con. What she doesn't
know about running the whole blame coun
try, Teddy, Uncle Bill and the other wise
ginks can't come across with."
"I am amaxed," Father asserts, in all
sincerity, "with the gems of real philos
ophy that are produced at the various
schools and colleges for young women."
"Take It from me. Pop, you're not the
only one the college dames throw a scare
Into by tearing off chunks of encyclopedia
Amerlcanla," affirms Son. "The chances
are. that their own mammas and papas
never even suspected that their coy little
daughters had so many three-syllable
words on tap."
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ways waste and often disastrous. We
may be habitually eager yet never in a
hurry "Our reach should always exceed
our grasp, else what's a heaven for?"
Something to love, something to do and
something to hope for, these are Indeed
the essentials of life. With only something
to do we would be cold, with love only we
would be sentimental, with hope only we
would be a long time poor, portrait paint
ers cause us to exclaim, as we look at the
faces of great men, "How composed! How
sereno!" which Is only another way of say
ing what moderation! How thoughtful and
ready for action.
Many are failures because they never
learned to concentrate their energies; they
never dreamed that succesf came by think
ing on one thing till It Is thought out and
then doing it till It is complete. Reverie
alone never yields possession. Thought is
wasted which withers before it blossoms
in action. Action, which Is the fruit of
laxy thinking, is tasteless or worse.
Paul practiced concentration of thought
and action. "This one thing I do, for
getting (putting out of thought) the things
Meet Every .Day..-:-
"Almost every line of human endeavor Is
discoursed Upon with rare Insight by the
fair graduates and excellent advice given
for sane living," continues Father.
"If any subject is skipped," retorts Son,
"it Is because It isn't listed In Webster's
unabridged."
."Take the problem of marriage, for ex
ample," resumes Father. "I heard a paper
read by one young girl, submitting a series
of rules which. If followed, would almost
guarantee a happy married life."
"Although I am breaking the oral betting
law," proposes Son, "I am willing to wager
a small sum that each and every rule was
something for hubby to do."
"Come to think ef it" recalls Father,
"most of the suggestions were intended for
men."
"I knew It" exclaims Son.' "Life would
be one long dream of bliss for the dear
creatures if we'd only play the game ac
cording to their frame-up. It's good ad
vice, but the trouble with It Is that it won't
work with us rough creatures. Most of us
guys have a few rules of our own we are
ready to slip across when we get as far
along as the marriage license bureau."
"Here's a famous preacher who tells a
class of girl graduates that they have the
power to reform society," Father inter
jects by way of a new angle.
"There ore too many reformers In the
business now," is Son's opinion. "What
most of the girls- Just out of school ought
to know Is how to hold down a Job and
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I think of one thing and reach for one
thing.
The mind which knows the delight of
righteous thinking will never be fully
satisfied till thought takes hold upon him
who Is the source of all righteousness. It
Is superficial thinking which does not dis
cover the supernatural, acknowledge the
Infinite and bow In worship before the
Self-existent One. The Bible has made
folly sxnonymous with atheism. A founder
of one of our American colleges thought to
exclude the final lesue of all right thinking
frrlm his school by shutting out ordained
ministers. Ho failed. Bight thinking In
Girard college led Inevitably to serious
spiritual thought. It always will.
If you have resolved to keep out of your
life that which Stephen Qlrard thought to
exclude from his college, then you are re
solved upon disobedience to this scripture.
The truest things, the purest, most equal
and most praiseful things come by associa
tion with God. God opens visions today.
Closing your eyes to a landscape does not
blot out the landscape. Every tree stands
in Its place and every brook runs Its
happy course Just the same. He who will
not see must at least hear the rustling of
the leaves and the murmur of the waters
and know that truth Is and God is and
heaven Is and Christ is and duty Is. The
will which excludes these, shows not
strength, but perversion.
Christ kept a balance between medita
tion and activity, between the prayer and
communion of the mountain and the teach
ing and healing of the multitude with In
finite decision he met his questioners,
friends and foes. His directness took the
form of the most open frankness and
turned not from the high of earth, nor
neglected the lowly. "The chief actor In
scenes supremely tragic he was ever calm."
He concentrated his energies and con
secrated himself to the baptism with which
he was to be baptised. It we give our
selves to thinking out the will of Ood and
doing the will of Qod we will be taking
up our cross dally and following Him
Think on these things. These
things do.
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drag loose at least six slmoleons per week.
Then the old folks might be able to get
hold of some of the cush daughter's educa
tion set 'em back. Society might be able
to worry along a while without being re
decorated, but the plush furniture In the
parlor usually gets might shabby when
the mazuma Is all going out to keep the
girls In college."
"The higher education is a splendid prep
aration for life," Father avers, "and
should like to see every girl go through
college."
"When that comes true," concludes Son,
"I see a bunch of perfectly good cook
stoves out of Jobs and a lot of us ginks
eating canned near-food while wlfles, with
bulging brows, go around the country mak
ing speeches on 'How to Be Happy Though
Married.' "
(Copyright, 1910, by the N. Y. Herald Co.)
Ever Buy Any Tailor's Tacks f
"I have gone Into nine hardware stores
today," said the discouraged amateur dress
maker, "and not one of them ever heard
of a tailor's tack."
"Tailor's tacks!" roared her brother.
"You don't mean to say you've been trying
to buy tailor's tacks?"
"Yes, I do. Madam told me to put the
Interlining In my coat with a few tailor's
tacks."
The brother then explained to her that
what she had been trying to buy was the
large stltchea which tailors use when put
ting parts of suits together. New York
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Ninety-five years ago today, on June K
1SU, Napoleon Bonaparte met with final
and crushing defeat in the battle of
Waterloo. The Issue of that battle broke
the Inflexible will, doomed to disappoint
ment the Insatiable ambition and ex
tinguishing forever the atar of destiny of
the greatest soldier, the greatest lawgiver,
the greatest financier and the greatest
politician modern Europe had known.
Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Is due to arrive
In New York today, after an absence of
something more than a year, most of which
time has been spent in the wilds of Africa,
beyond the pale of civilization. Tlio fact
that Mr. Roosevelt's return to the United
States has been compared by some politic
ians to the return of Napoleon from exile
In the Island of Elba, the -more or less
mythical existence ot the "Back-from-
Elba Club," and the further fact that Mr.
Roosevelt is the most remarkable person-
Uty in American public life today, adds
Interest to the curious coincidence that the
day of the Roosevelt homecoming should
be the anniversary ot that tragic event In
which the original back-from-Elba move
ment came to lte terrible end.
In March, 1,114, the troops of the allied
powers of Europe entered Paris. The
Emperor Napoleon then was defeated, but
not discouraged. He abdlcted the imperial
throne and the French people Invited Louis
XVIII, head of the house of Bourbon, to
reign over them. Napoleon was to retain
tho rank and title ot emperor and was to
rule m Imperial state over the Island of
Elba, In the Mediterranean sea. Liberal
pensions were provided for the Imperial
family. The Bourbon rule was stupid, tact
less and unpopular. Napoleon kept care
ful watch over events from his position of
vantage In Elba. Finally, the time came to
strike.
Napoleon, accompanied only bo a few
retainers, set sail from Elba on February
26. On the first day of March he
landed on French soli on the shore of the
Quit of Juan. He began at orjre his
march toward Paris. At first, the people
were distrustful and afraid. But when
Napoleon reached that part of the country
garrisoned by the soldiers who bad fol
lowed his eagles to victory, the soldiers
and the people threw away the white flag
of the Bourbons and hoisted the tricolor of
their greatest hero. On March 19, Na
poleon approached the outskirts of Paris
at the head ef a great army. More' than
100,000 French troops were drawn up In
battle array to opose him, and to defend
the lilies of Louis XVIII. Curiously, ques-
tlonlngly, excitedly, Napoleon's own soldiers
waited to receive an attack from Napoleon.
But even they did not know their emperor.
For, Instead of a charging column, there
came an open carriage and In It was
seated the Little Corporal, the Great Cor-
s lean. He stood up In the carriage and
with one wave of his hand captured 100,000
soldiers sworn to defend the king of
France. That night Louis fled from Paris
and Napoleon entered the Tullerles and
again assumed the dignity, power and
authority . of emperor of tha French. Na
poleon was back from Elba.
One hundred days later, on the plains
before the tiny Belgian village ot Waterloo,
Napoleon engaged in battle against the
combined forces of the British, Dutch,
Flemish and German armies, - under the
command ot the duke of Wellington. That
day Napoleon saw his matchless army
routed and cut to pieces. Then and there,
the British empire was saved, the German
empire made possible, the whole course of
the history ot the nineteenth century was
changed and shaped anew. It not the
moat momentous battle of history. It was
the most Interesting.
A greater number of Americana will visit
the battlefield ot Waterloo this summer
than In. any of the ninety-five years since
the battle was fought. This will be on
account 6f the great International exposi
tion being held In Brussels, which is serv
ing to attract to beautiful Belgium more
than the ordinary proportion of the Amer
ican sightseers In EuroDe. The traveler
la the old world frequently 'demands the
ancient and refuses to waste his tfme on
anything less than fjve centuries old, in
spite of the guides to elaborate upon the
beauties of a brand new railway station
or theater. Guides In Washington annoy
European travelers by persistently pointing
out houses holy with the halo of a hundred
years, whereas the travelers have come
to America with the express Intention of
refusing to see anything over ten years old.
The battlefield ot Waterloo is the one
notable sight which Is a compromise be
tween the ancient and the modern. Com
manders of two Scotch regiments on the
morning of that fateful lith of June mut
tered mutiny against the great duke be
cause he had given the Forty-second regl
ment a prominent part in the early maneu
vers, and, therefore, according to the
Scotch colonels, the Forty-second would get
all of the praise in the newspapers. Amer
ican colonels Who were accused of spectac
ular fighting for the benefit Of newspaper
correspondents during the war with Spain
were the subject of much shaijp criticism
because they had so degraded the world-
Types We Meet Every Day
By BOBBIE BABBLE.
Says Trivia, with an anxious stare,
The sea is smooth, the day Is fair,
And yet how hard the engines pound!
I feel quite queer; let's walk around.
HoW strange the deck 1st Don't you see
This first plank seems to creep toward me?
The next one creeps the other way.
No, I'm not fll, though J look gray.
"Did you say dinner! Don't. I shrink
From anything like food or drink.
I've learned ere Sandy Hook slips part
Why some folks think it wise to fast
I must sit down. Why, Where's my chalrT
Steward, you mustn't put It there
Next to Old Dope he's grim and gray
And has no pleasant things to sayt
"Not there-4ha.t's next to old Miss Prude;
She's somotlmes cross and always rude,
And after dark she'd fume and fret
If I should light a cigarette.
She reads depressing learned books
And never oart how fierce she looks.
Is that youug Bullion's special ohatrf
I'll have mine next; yea, put tt there."
"Why Mister Bullion, can tt be
Tlvat you are stationed next to met
Yes, I'm Mtaa Trivia how d'ye doT
What makee the aea so heavenly blue?
How's your dear mother? 111? How sad!
An hour ago I felt quite bad,
But I feel better now. Oh, yes,
I'm a grand sailor, I confess!"
old martial art But the two Scotch colo
nels prove that the soldier's desire to figure
In the special dispatches of a war corre
spondent was born simultaneously with the
first war dlxpatch. The first war corre
spondent was John Robinson, who went to
the continent In to report the Napo
leonic wars for the London Times. In this
phase, the battle ot Waterloo is Intensely
modern.
One may leave Waterloo now at noon and
be in London at midnight by traveling with
special speed. London did not know ot the
battle of Waterloo for tour days, tho Times
printing a dispatch on Juuo i, which was
followed the next day by the publication
ot the duke ot Wellington's official report.
The news of the defeat of the great
Napoleon first became known In America
on July 31, when the Boston Dally Adver
tiser announced: "A gentleman has Jutt
arrived from a vessel which ie left in
the harbor bringing London dates to June
21," end then followed a reproduction ot
the duke of Wellington's report of the
battle. The news went from Boston to
New York by stage and first was printed
In the American metropolis more than six
weeks after the battle had taken place. In
this phase Waterloo seoma to belong to
ancient history.
The visitor to the battlefield of Water
loo today, unless he be a military expert,
cannot but feel a sense of disappointment.
To be such a great battle Waterloo was
fought upon such an absurdly small field.
There was six miles of battlo Una at Get
tysburg. Fifty miles of Japanese received
with fire the advance ot nearly 1.000,000
Russians in Manchuria. It la hardly . a
mile from one end of the field of Waterloo
to another. If the muskets and the cannon
had been stilled It would have been possible
for Napoleon at La Do lie Alliance to have
conversed with the great duke near the
farm of La Haye Salute across the two
shallow valleys Intervening. The best
musket known in those days could not b
depended upon to do execution at a dis
tance of more than 250 yards. Armies had
to get close togother If they fought at all,
and, as they did come close together, there
waa always a great deal of hand-to-hand
fighting. This made It necessary for the
troops to be kept In compact formation.
One knows these things and one remembers
that there were not more than 180,000 troops
all told engaged In this battle, and yet he
Is not prepared to find the great field ot
Waterloo a theater too small tor a re
spectable skirmish In modern warfare.
Visitors to the battlefield, and they are
numerous, go out from Brussels by the
trolley car, or over a beautiful road
through the beech forest by motor car.
The village of Waterloo Is Uttle changed
perhaps, by the ravages of a century, and
It Is today as colorless and uninteresting
as it was ninety-five - years ago. It saw
nothing of the battle, and Its name was
immortalised only by the mere accident
that the Puke ot Wellington, on the night
of the battle, here found an inn in which
to rest himself, and from which he wrote
the report of his victory over the great
Frenchman. The Inn In which Wellington
slept and tha house in which Victor Hugo
lived when gathering material tor his cele
brated account of the battle are the only
show places In the village. By the way, It
la Interesting to recall that this great battle
la known by three different names. English-speaking
people call it Waterloo, Ger
mans call It the Battle of La Belle Al
liance and the French refer to It as the
Battle of Mont St Jean.
On his arrival at the field the first thing
one asks to see la tha famous sunken road,
where so many brave French cavalrymen
perished. It is not there. The dirt from
each side was taken away and the ground
levelled by honest but misguided ' Dutch
men who used the earth to erect a pyramid
In honor of William, prince of Orange, who
was wounded in tha battle. This pyramid
of sodded earth, surmounted hy the Dutch
Hon, is the most imposing feature of the
landscape ot the field. There are but two
other monuments. One Is a marble shaft
marking the position of the Hanovernlans,
which was erected soon after the battle.
The other Is the monument ot Napoleon,
The memorial to Napoleon marks the
spot where Napoleon stbod when the Old
Guard made its final effort In his behalf.
It Is a bronze eagle, falling to earth wuh
a wing broken, transfixed by an arrow.
The field of Waterloo lies peaceful un
der its carpet ot wheat and -rye, but the
marks of the dread conflict are not all
obliterated. The garden wall at Hougeou
mont still stands, and there are the broken
marble terraces of the burned chateau,
there la the well which was filled with the
blood of English, defenders, there Is the
sanctuary ot the chapel into which the pro
fane flames dared not to go. The gates of
Hougeoumont are filled with bullets, the
marks of fir are still upon the stones and
brick of the. walla, and before the garden
stands the . few survivors ot a veteran
forest till nursing In their hearts a
heavy weight of English lead and French
steel.
BT nXBSBXO 3. KASXXV.
Tomorrow Tho American Bog.
The Girl On the
Ocean Greyhound.
And Trlvte settles In her chair,
Smiling with a contented air.
The voyage the-t ahe dreaded so
Looks pleasant, now she has a beau.
Here comes another, then some more.
Until she lands on Europo's shore
She'll be so buty, I dare swear
She'll have no time for ma.1 de mer.
(Copyright 1910, by the N. Y. Herald Co )
