Show I THE RED MANS ITAttMAG AVAIPJiniTJQX > WHICH TJSM31VED I THKOIIEAT > rOLEOS I That Napoleon I remarkable perauuaKr talun all around got without saying The greatest general gen-eral of modem or perhaps of noy time yet wlUlDla wonderful com bination of strong uiindednesa and weak groveling ot superstitious fancies fan-cies As some writer has said lie was all star and destiny This star seems to have been the ruling omen of his enUru career Its twink lings nerved him at the battle of the Pyramids and beckoned him to the expedition to Moscow and even though that turned out to be one of themofet disastrous moves he ever made he never lost faith In the omen for a single instant 1 shall never forget how absorbed r came in reading Rapp account of the great guieraln abstraction when gazing on his tUr of destiny from Ilk palace window Look then uji there said Jia poleon II see nothing but the pale twinkling twin-kling stars returned Jtapp quietly quiet-ly What cxclalmlJ the cmpuor excitedly la it possible that you do not see my star the llrey red one almost as large as the moon 1 It h before you now and oh how brilliant bril-liant Then warming up at the rhO r uCoar eight he fairly shrieked as he crie out It has never alandoned me fur an instant I wo It on all great occasions it commands me to go forward om dtro ward it is my feign of good fortune and where it leads I will follow Itapp said that lie fairly screamed aa he uttered the words I will follow fol-low anj that his face was livid as be seated himself confueion and suppressed excitement Tug KED SPECTERS LAST CALL Whether or not the Red Specter vis ted 2vnpoleon that night after Rapp retired we are informed It to I kuown however that n spirit dressed in red and shape i like a man visited him on several occa sious when the tar was shining with unwonted brightness The last I time tills spectral apparition appeared to the emperor was on Jan 1ISU when he came to the great generals palace and asked admission of the guards Early In the morning of that day Napoleon shut himself up in his cabinet bidding bid-ding Count Mole then counselor ct state and afterward grand judge of the empire to remain In an adjoining adjoin-ing room and to admit no one to the royal presence Hardly bad an hour pafed before an individual fantastically dressed in red troupers blouse and cap apol iMjircd in the hallway Hu was I baited by the guard jutas Mole appeared on tho scene When informed In-formed that the emperor was busy and must not be Interrupted the RedMan Red-Man grew Impatient and declared that be must see Nai > oleonand him alone immediately I must see him Tell him theRe the-Re Man is waiting for an audience audi-ence Trembling vlokutly and awed almost to fspeochlejaness at the ins perlousand commanding tone of the red apparition Mote again tiptoed to the door of the royal chamber and announced tho presence of Lie lIed Man ManNapoleon the man of Iron blanched as white as a ghost his arms dropped nerveless rtow lib lde I I allowing a coolly mirror which I he was holding in his hand to fall aol i break Into a million pieces as tiny I did so Although it was plain that the I announcement had completely unnerved un-nerved him he managed to give orders for the unwelcome guest to admitted After the door was cI01E > Toll prompted by curiosity held his oar to the door and as lie afterward attested on oath heard the following conversation the most remarkable dialogue ever listened to In the history of the world WHAT MOLE IIKAUD General said tlie Red Specter this lathe third time I hae appeared ap-peared before you as a man The tlrfct time wo met was in Egypt at tho Battle of the Pyramid the second after the Battle of Wasrim On the occasion of our meeting at Wagram I granted you four more years in which to terminate the conquest of all Europe or to make a gputral peace threatening that if you did not perform one of thee two things within the allotted time I wcuid withdraw no trotettlon from you New I am come for the third and lat time to warn you that you have but throe short months of power In thrt > months from tills hour the allies will be Invading Paris If you do not take my advice and sue for peace A general peace tbo perfected within ninety days else otherwise 3 our power will be confined to a small Jilack Island of the sea so remember all will bo over with you if you do not achieve a conquest or accede to jieaco within that lime In vain did Napoleon expostulate with this cardinal specter who at with as much ease In the presence of the great emperor as the emperor himself would in the presence of isis rno t < orurnon subject it will bo entirely1 i out of the question to cither conquer or make peace on honorable terms in the I short sJ > Ito of three mouth ho said saidDo as you please returned tho red man but I wlll not change my resolution Xow I goiso said as he opened the door and strode down the hall followed by the emperor em-peror and Mote who pretended to have been standing on guard at the IJr1 Lrl Id 7 feoJ second door from the room In which the remarkable conversation had been held Ills Imperial majesty begged of the red man io stay but all to no purpose Three months no longer shouted the > ecter as he disappeared the end of his hall THREE JIOVTHS LATER March 13 1514 just three months from the time of the rod ghosts visit the lilies I wru in Paris and Napoleons abdication followed four days later when all his posseeolons were Wrested from him and he the great Napoleon made sovereign over tho ml > tutle little Island of Elba the tamo the red man had held up to the minds eye of the great general in the prophetic conversation con-versation on January 1 The main points In tho remarkable remark-able narration as given above are from official documents signed by both Counselor Mole and the guard Basil do Mlgne the former as one who had heard the prophetic con tersallov and the latter as one who had attempted without success to bar out the lied Specter when he first applied far admission The court dignitaries at the French capital have long been acquainted with the story of Napoleon and the famous visits from the lied Specter but it has never become the property of the general public The writer believes this to be the first account of it ever published In an American journal and ould be thankful to any one able to cite a prior instance Jolm IV nyM In St lava Keftti lie |