Show BABIES ON THE BATTLEFIELD After the great French victory of Austerlitz Napoleons troops found while pursuing the enemy a boy of 2 or3 years old lost or deserted by his parents The child was brought before General Bernadotte who ordered that diligent search should be made among the neighboring villages and farmhouses farm-houses tor some trace of its parents No relations coming forwardto claim this waif of war however Bernadotte < placed him in charge of one of his vi vandieres and soon the little fellow became the pet of the army Napoleon resting for the first time in days at the castle of the Baron von Kaunitz heard of the boy and commanded Iat he should be brought before him The result was that the great emperor practically prac-tically adopted Johann for the child was just able to lisp that his name was Johann without casting any further light on his identity Napoleon conferred upon him the full name of Jean de Laguerre or John of the War and Jean was sent to Paris to be educated When the emperor was exiled to Elba General Bernadotte who had in the meantime been eledted king of Sweden brought Jean de Laguerre to Stockholm and gave him a commission commis-sion in tile army He eventually became be-came Swedish minister to Germany and a count of Sweden The family which he founded is still well known in Scandinavia Scan-dinavia but Jean de Laguerre never succeeded in discovering who his parents par-ents were or how he came to be left behind on the field of Austerlitz Such discoveries of babies amid the scenes of war and death are by no means uncommon During the American Ameri-can civil war a notable instance occurred oc-curred A baby beautifully dressed was found by the confederate troops in the debatable region along the Potomac heat fIOoal gs ffo during the heat of the strife There was nothing to identify the infant or to tell the side to which its parents had belonged Eventually a confederate tel dier obtained leave to adopt the girl for a girl it happened to be and at the earliest opportunity she was sent by means of a mule transport corps to his wifes home in Georgia After the war advertisements were inserted in northern and southern newspapers regarding re-garding the child but nobody came fir ward to claim her She grew up into a handsome and clever woman and a few years ago married Thomas E < Watson of Georgia who was the Populist Popu-list candidate for the vice presidency In the last election Mrs Watson believes that her parents were confederate sympathizers sym-pathizers and that they perished during the war In the revolution a somewhat similar incident occurred A baby was found by the British undei > Colonel Tarleton nor could Its identity be discovered It was brought up by a family named Glbbs and rose to fame as Lieutenant Colonel Penwick A baby was found on the battlefield of I Waterloo but in this case the childs father and mother were known The mother had died a few days before in I Brussels while the father a soldier of the Eightyseventh Cameron Highlanders Highland-ers fell In the great fight Little Donald I Don-ald Cameron managed to escape from the transport wagon where he had i been stowed and had strayed Into serious ser-ious danger before he Was noticed and j caught by an officer in an Irish regiment regi-ment Whether the terrors of Waterloo Water-loo made an evil impression upon little lit-tle Donald or not he steadfastly refused I re-fused to enlist although his ancestors for generations had been soldiers Instead In-stead he became a guard on the London Northwestern railroad and died a member of the Peace society in Birmingham lat summer Two years ago a Russian officer of good family was married in St Petersburg Peters-burg to a young lady whose parents nobody knew but who had no less than 900 fosterfftthers Her fosterfathers I were the soldiers of a regiment which I had found her asa baby lying abandoned j aban-doned by her relatives on the road from Plevna to Constantinople The soldiers I put together handsome purse for the young brIdQs dowry I To come down to our own times a little Afridi baby was found by the British troops in northern India after a skirmish with the hilltribes about one noiuh art The British did not wish to leave the little fellow on the field of battle and tookhim1 with them I on the march Later on when returning return-ing they left it on the exact spot I where it had been originally found They were rewarded for their pains After an hour or two had passed by a band of Afridis descended from the hills and carried the baby away Probably Prob-ably the dusky urchin in view of his strange experience will be greatly I looked up to by his tribesmen and become be-come a great leader and a thorn in the I side of his British preservers I |