Show A imps abroad IMPORTANT BATTLES an enquirer correspondent tella about famous cities and men john and your correspondent today may be seen two lonely mormon eiders haying walked more than an hour without anybody searching thal message af truth seated on a large atone on the great claing of leio eig A cool keen breeza blown over the opan expanse of country lying before u the old trees here to shade the tourist have dropped their leaves and the crops haye been gathered from tta historia hi storis hillside hilli ide gently descending from here to the city we are on the summit of a small ele ration now marked by monument erected to the memory of the great apoleon or perhaps better erected to i the remembrance of hia downfall on this wonderful spot of ground stood that ambitious warrior when ha had ceased ascending and commanded probably bis first great battle in defense or in despair here was it he nervously watched that poor mutilated half army all that was left alter hia retreat from rally to ft final faint straggle A struggle that proved to be a massacre masa acre virtually after the proud had baen defeated history informs us that hia genela receding plain which apparently kiowa no other noise than the clink of the plowshare or the buky voice of the addman and man has drunk the blood of anda and re sounded to the echoes of hot and chell has beard the agonia ine cries of almost a hundred thousand wounded soldiers and witnessed the flight of about seventy thousand abir its it has been the cradle for the wounded and the slab for the dead hight here stood napoleon when he was force 1 to realize that eight years of hia bold work with all the idyes and money it bad cost had been undone at aba end of three daya battle at this place was he confronted bj the buea fion can I 1 return and reign paris s defeated general which be answered indeed by dragging hia py country through yet another period of mape acre had we been sealed here in 1813 we could hare beheld these memorable happenings happe ninga with a panoramic view lor the country spreads out most beautifully from this elevation there may have been seen almost a half million of men for the blood of their opponents prussians russians and against the workout french bat the wounded 0 that day have ceased their groaning and widows mothers and sisters no longer mourn the loss of their dear ones for most of that generation has passed away that blood stained soil haa beao washed by the winter rains and the foot prints of renowned renow nad generle gen erlB lare loog einab been obliterated there remain today only monuments monumenta enta alator ies aad traditions the quiet scene now rather teaches man what civilize civi liza tion unmolested can accomplish the thrifty farm great ricks of sugar beeta the passing locomotive the of numerous industries and a city of chabis tanta but the great nbattle of this spot is not all that marks the history of the city of leipcig Lei paig it aa played its roll in the woolda drama ever since about the ear aco when ii waa founded first in commercial and second in lize of the cities of saxony it stands lem the junction of thieo email rivera ghost fiaher iea led to the settlement of the place from here or in fact io any exterior observer nothing par ticul arly its hidden me ita placa it among the lead finx ot the empire excluding alone the city of hamburg it stands farat in commercial import anca th second largest german is the headquarters of the supreme courts of tha empire and per haa no peer in literary and musical attainments in europe the old walls once intended to protect in habitants from barbarina barbar cna onslaughts have given way to a wide pleasant proa anade surrounding the old city ba burban now parts of the city stretch out in all directions and from this elevated spot appear as has been written of london parts of the country running into the city and parts of the city running into the conn try the old town with its narrow and numerous hoasea sf the and centuries still prea arvea much of ilg quaint medieval aspect the wine Anaro acha cellar hax already received attention in TEB perhaps there ia no greater book centre in elrode than in leipsig tha university founded in 1409 by a ce of two thona and frem prague ranks among the most important in germany and haq a patronage of abent students ander pro feofora three hundred ati d fi IE d volumes grace the shelves of the ual library which ia freela open to tho public AK A centra th city is widely known and it ia pleasure to report that utah ia BO well represented in the renowned conserva goriun to riun anthon lund of ephraim and J A anderson of are preaching a good derixon for our peo pl by their talent and conduct amona a class the elders find it most difficult to get access to in music ther ara making excellent strides and their studious nasa and ambition ara certainly Brai sowo thy As a natural Leip sigs graat publishing importance has brought here many gifted authora and converted it aiato iato a literary centre one feature that haa troyed very interesting ii the fact that ahrea areat faira are annually ann Cally held it is that about merchants merr hants then congregate here from various parts of eu rope and asia in 1479 and 1507 max amilian forbade the holding of annul markets within a certain radina of leial aig and thus increased their importance here but owina to the alterations brought about by invention and free thought sheea fairs have ot later years waned we are informed that about dollars represents the importance of sales at the fain each year hare wae it that the famous conference br tween martin luthar and dr EA toofe place in 1519 though it was not until twenty veara later that leipzig formally espoused the protestant cause ibis city hax experienced seven in wars and baa been occupied four times by hostile troops Literary ally and I 1 musically she may boast of har native sons and ree identa for among them ar numbers ed gottschen Gott sched who ws to germany what johnson was to england goethe who was to garmany what was to england En cland lasins LM sins klopstock jean paul fi ichter schiller and many others and as for music sebastian bach hiller and wagner occupied profession chairs and otherwise mingled in harre universities she boosts too of being the ace of the areat german philosopher leibnitz but the napoleon stone by which we eit marks only one of the interact int erect ing events of this old german town from yon watch tower over the historic can be seen other bat tie fields than this and other monuments with other meanings after the desolating invasion of saxony by tilly the saxons sought the aid of gustavus adolphus the hero of protestantism in the thirty year war and the leader of that army of prayer ful Eol from sweden resulting m the battle ef britenfield Brut enfield if napolain Nap saw defeat at this spot certainly the pope of bome witnessed the shattering of catholic Oat holic supreme for tho battle resulted in the complete over throw of tilly after this conflict gustavus was hailed as the liberator of protestantism but in later conflict which took place on a liaty november day of 1632 near leizzie Leip zie thia brave Swee dieh king with men attacked the imperialists imperiali its numbering and made yonder suburb the aito of one of the bloodiest battles recorded on the of history it was then aad there that gustavus Gusta vua too eager to rally bi men became separated from his guards and wai ahot on th bank of one of the email rivers through the city i another celebrated d to remind the world of the of napoleon and of what men were made to suffer to satisfy his unbridled ambition after lie had been defeated and was making his flight through the city he found the bridge over the stream blown up but daunta ine he forced his men into the river forming a bridge of as many as was nei bagary over which he conducted the remainder of the army and bis cannons some were driven into the mud some only in water and the mangled forma of others were bruised aad trampled by ane hoofs of the warb oraa or the wheel of heavy guna Thia city baa proportionately more than any cita in the ic a thousand yeara old witnessed the beginning of france downfall baw the papal despo irm broan has been tha home of germany beit thinkers and writers if a leading ado cinter of europe and hu been one of the battle of the world E W B dac |