Show NAPOLEONS F 1 THE THC SNOW HIM memorable Me ITIn 1 of the 1 let not tile ct chrt tic tile h taken a it juveli I 1 urt art in tile Ill stary ot of I 1 t U mrs r everybody t sant sic lah riding in august angust would bo be tho the N cry acino of raol loi sum suro tho trouble with has always al way iwon been that it c ima tit tho the wrong timo time of tho the boar a nod in tho the wrong kind 0 of weather thoro Il ioro really much pleasure la sleigh riding when the weather is so cold that onoe ones cars and noso and toes are likely to freeze about ne as much roal real joy could bo be obtained by putting enoi foot fact in a bowl of ico ice water and ring las ing a diner di ner boll bell tho antrin sic 1 worth of ut anything as of pleasure depends vory very largely upon tho the happy harmoniousness of tho the surroundings ur roun dings this explains why th oo 00 vero winters of tho the past mado made beautiful ticul snow rather rat bior unpopular snow has played a very important pirt in tho the ranking of tho the worlds history it was not tho the etal atal nod ned knowel snows of linden eo so beautifully enshrined in poesy that responsible for tho the most and sickening pago a in tho the awful annals of war wherein ie Is recorded tho the story of the retreat of grand army tho the historians of that dreadful event toli tell us that nil all over europe there arc tokens of an earl early winter when on the day of october 1812 napoleon evacuated moscow in russia tho the winter had tot el in noi not goroly much curlier but with almost unprecedented it required three weeks to march from moscow to tho the snow foil toll almost without intermission throughout tho the whole of this terrible time before and behind on this eldo side and on that nothing was to bo be soon but this fateful winding shoot auvo save where dark moving me ing told of aly taj j presence of tho the cossacks cor on the watch to barrass harrass their dispirited foe foo uy by hundreds vda ond and by thousand ti by rank and by battalion men man and horses fell by the way to rise no more overwhelmed by tho the blinding pitiless lees enow snow drift starving frozen half naked fighting their way against the terrors of a russian winter r bad nd the exulting attacks of the russian troop troops it was a miserable remnant ol 01 the french strength khit reached blensk only to find that they could h ahto I 1 a neither rest nor succor there but must continue their terrible combat with the powers of nature and of man in one did iho the cold favor thom it en cn idled key noy with tho remnants of hta his following to cross the on the ico ice but when the tho troops t bopa came to the f ital beresina De resina tho the thaw mor than the frost had filled the cha chatiner tinel f tho the river with flo fl biting tailing ico tee twenty tty thousand perished thero there alone and then than the cold increased and so at length a few wretched stragglers only returned to franc e four hundred thousand died in that 1 campaign of woo and terror who can guess how a map of tho the eul nations would appe ir r today to day had napoleon und his arm arms not been overcome by tho the enow snow history contains accounts of many wonderfully cold and snowy winters in 1718 the swedish army marching to was overtaken on the mountains by a snowstorm and men perl por ehod labod and the expedition was abandoned in 1836 snow fell foil in england to the depth oi ot from four our to nino nine fee feel and to a similar depth in new Ec england gland while many american amerlean winters have been bid bla for their cold and snow no important historical events baio been gravely influenced by them history aleo also records some romantic loi oe a stories in which snow has been a chief actor Eg rinhard the secretary and biographer of Charle charlemagne mag no fell tali tn in lovo love with wi h the monarchs daughter emma while pacing pa ing her stolen visit one evening tl it began to snow and nd when he was about to leave tho the earth oarth was covered by a telltale tell tale talo coit but emma win not strong only in affection esho she took her lavor on her back and f carried him to abbi lodgings by chance tho the p gilr dr were observed by charlemagne first frightened EgIn hard by asking what doom the man inan deserved who made tha the daughter of his kin a beatt of burden and nod then right royally consented to the marriage of tho tle pair fur whom the snow tall fall proved to bo be tho the chief laatch makor maker |