Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1916 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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A DISTURBING THOUGHT. "Suppose Napoleon had been fighting under modern conditions,” remarked the theorist. "Do you think he would have escaped defeat?" "That is rather hard to say,” answered the connoisseur, "but for the sake of art, I’m glad he lived when he did.'” “Yes?” “Think of the splendid battle pictures we now have in our art galleries, depicting incidents of Napoleon’s campaigns, and imagine what sort of work an artist would have done had he attempted to paint Napoleon telephoning to the front, or Napoleon in his dugout.”