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BLUFFEDf ID WON A Dramatic Incident of the Fate ful Hundred Days. , ONE OF NAPOLEON'S COUPS. The Way of the Great Military Genius Overcame the Pi ret Opposition He Encountered on the March to Paris After His Return From Elba. A striking incident In the career of Napoleon Is described by Camille Co cuaud In his book, "Le Hetour de i'lsle d'Elbe" ("The Return From tbe Island of Elba"). It describes how be met the . first opposition offered to his march to Paris after bis escape from Elba: "Meanwhile Napoleon had traveled by the Alps to Dauphine, advancing Into the interior of the country. Hav ing received Information on Sunday, the 4th of March, the prefect of l'lscre had Immediately, In concert with the military authority, taken measures to deal with the startling sit uation. A detachment composed of a battalion of the Fifth regiment of the line and two companies of engineers was dispatched to prevent the further advance of the emperor. The meeting between this detach ment and tbe little troop from tbe isle of Elba took place on the 7th of March near Vlzllle, but not before the peasants had bad time to hasten to in form Napoleon of the antagonistic dis position of the officers commanding the troops which had been sent from Grenoble. In order to avoid the shed ding of blood the emperor ordered Cnmbronne, who was accompanied by a small escort, to enter into treaty with the cocardes blanches (white cockades). Cainbronne found the de tachment ranged In order of battle. The commanding officer refused to en ter Into communication, and the sol' dlers remained silent and gloomy. "Napoleon Immediately took bis share In the proceedings. He gave the order to his grenadiers to put their rifles under their arms. In order to give proof of their pacific dispositions. Then be ndvancod alone, while some of tain friends cried to the soldiers of the line: " 'Friends, do not fire! There Is the emperor, who wishes to speak to you.' "Napoleon now found himself about thirty meters from, the Grenoble do tachment. lie dismounted and. bis arms crossed on his breast, remained standing In the middle of the road. " 'Soldiers of the Fifth, he said in a loud tone 'soldiers of the Fifth,-do you recognize me? " 'Yes, yes!' they all replied. "Then Napoleon, throwing open his gray cloak with a dramatic gesture and pointing to his breast with his hands, replied: "'If there Is one among, you who wishes to kill his general, his emperor, ho can do It. Here I ami' "The response was unanimous, sub lime: 'Long live the emperorl Long live the emperorl' "Breaking the ranks, their shakos at the ends of the swords or on the bayo nets, the solc'iers of the Fifth, to whom were joined the engineers, ran toward Napoleon, surrounded him. embraced hlui. kissed his hands, called him their preserver, their father, their general, their emperor. Finally the two de tachments mingled together and be came consolidated. Napoleon then had 2,000 men with whom to march on to Grenoble. "They , took the road, and it was a triumphal mnrch. The people of the district came to meet the column, ac claiming Napoleon as the liberator of the nation and as the living incarna tion of tho revolution. , "Tho peasants wept with Joy. At this sight the emperor, turning toward his oflleers, Droudt and Bertrand. said to them : '"Everything is now in good order. Within ten days we shall bo at the Tuilerles!' " NOISE OF THUNDER. Due to Heating of Gases Along the Lin; of Electric Discharge. To Trofessor Trowbridge we owe an experiment to explain . the noise of thunder. It has usually been thought that the noise Is caused by the clos ing up of the vacuum created by the passage of lightning, the air rushing In from all sides with u cl;:. but tbe intensity of the noise is rather dis proportionate, and it Is now supposed that the thunder Is due to the Intense heating of the gases, especially the gas of water vapor along the line of tbe electric discharge, and tbe conse quent conversion xf suspended mols ture into steam at enormous pressure. In this way the crackle with which a peal of 'thunder sometimes begins might be regarded as the sound of steam explosions on a small scale, caused by inductive discharges before the main flash. The rumble would be the overlapping steam explosions, and the final clap, which soundest loudest, would be tbe steam explosion nearest to the auditor. In the case of rum bling thunder the lightning Is passing from cloud to cloud. When tbe flash passes from the earth to the clouds the clap Is loudest at the beginning. Professor Trowbridge gave sub stance to these suppositions by caus ing electric flashes to pass from point to point through terminals clothed In soaked cotton wool, and be succeeded In magnifying the crack of the elec tric spark to a terrifying extent. Lon don Graphic. Helped the Thief. ' "A simple, honest Scotch farmer had taken a sack of meal to dispose of In Aberdeen castle market," says Mrs. Mayo in her "Recollections of Fifty Years." "It was in the days when people were banged for any petty theft, and an execution was In prog ress, the culprit being a sheep stealer. Tbe worthy countryman stood aghast when a stranger bustled up with the question:" - 'What's a-dor "'A hanging,' said the other, awed. for stealing n sheep. "'Eh. what won't folks risk for gear!' cried the stranger. 'Will ye just give me a hand up with this sack?" "The tanner promptly complied. It was only afterward that be dlscov en d he Iumi helped a thief to make off with itv fie k f meal he had brought iosell'" Professional Song of the Flame. Fire enn be made to sing. A. writer snys: "Take a lighted candle and blow gently against the flame, i'ou will hear a peculiar fluttering sound. The flutter ing sound Is tire's flrsc attempts at mu sic. Instead of tbe unsteady breath ot our lips let us employ the steady blast of n blowpipe. Instead of the pale and flickering light of a candle let us use the bright and ardent glare of a chem ist's lamp. When you have a lamp and blowpipe you can make fire sing in earnest." An Evident Success. "So you have a position as stenogra pher. I hope you will succeed to mak ing yourself indispensable to your em ployer." ' "1 think I have, auntie. Wo are to be married next month." Pittsburg Post. Lucky. "Noah must tum felt lucky when he landed after his long sail." , 1 "Yes." replied the New Tork im porter. "Think of a nmu landing all that cargo without n customs official to say a word!"-Washington Star. Just What He Wanted. ! , "la your suburb wlwleson ie?" ' : "No, old chap, it aiu't My wife lost her voice as soon as we 1 moved out hero, and' V ;. .. "What's the price of the- Jot next to yoursf'-Clevelaud Leader,? Concentration is the secret of strength In politics, In war, ,tn trade. Emerson, s THE BIGJ3IPPER. It Is the Hour Hand of the Woodman's Celestri Clock. The pole star is really the most Im portant of the stars In our sky. It marks the north at all times. It alone Is fixed in the heavens. . All the other stars seem to swing around It once in twenty-four hours. But the pole star of Polaris is not a very bright one, and It would be hard to identify but for the help of the so called pointers in the "Big Dipper," or "Great Bear." The outer rim of the dipper points nearly to Polaris at a distance equal to three times the space that separates the two stars of the dipper's outer side. Various Indians called the pole star the "Home Star" and the "Star That Never Moves," and the dipper they call the "Broken Back." The "Great Bear" Is also to be remem bered as the pointers for another rea son. It Is the hour hand of the wood man's clock. It goes once around the north star in about twenty-four hours, the reverse way of the hands of a watch that Is, it goes the same way as the sun and for the same reason that it is the earth that Is going and leaving tftem bebind-Oountry Life In America. NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT. In the County Conrt of tbe State of Oregon for Umatilla Gmnty. In the matter of the estate of John G . Tharp, Deoeased. Notioe la hereby given to all whom it may conoern that B. D. Tbarp, ad ministrator of tbe estate of John G. Tharp. deoeased, has filed his final aoooant and report in the adminis tration of said estate; that the conrt has ordered that Monday, tbe 6th day of March, A. D. 1911. at tbe bour of ten o'clook in tbe forenoon, be appointed as the time and the oonn- ty court house at Pendleton, Oregon, as tbe place where any and all objec tions and exceptions to the said final account and report will be heard and tbe settlement thereof made. Dated this the 3rd day of February, A. D. 1911. ' B. D. Tharp, Administrator. Peterson & Wilson, Attorneys. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE In the county court of tbe state of Oregon, for Umatilla oonnty. In tbe matter of the estate of JB. U. Kidder, deceased: Notioe is hereby given that Geo. B. Kiddei, tbe undersigned, has been appointed administrator of tbe estate of B. G. Kidder, deoeased, and has duly qualified as suoh administrator and all peisons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to pre sent tho same to me properly verified at tbe offloe of Attorney Geo. W. Contts, John Schmidt blook, Pendle ton, Oregon, within six months from tbe date hereof. Dated at Athena, Oregon, January 31.1911. Geo. B. 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