SAW NAPOLEON'S ARMY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1912, 21 November 1913, Page 7

SAW NAPOLEON'S ARMY

■ '0 . Vr ' EBUSRUN POLISH WOMAN WHO IS 120 YEARS OLD. . The "Frankfurter Zeitnng". la's'.' ■ nn■earfltcd at tlits village of Uoriiibwo,. in this district of IfesQi-itz, Prussian Poland, an old woman, who can prove by uiideiii-. ablo official papers that she was'l2o years old on f.ktohor IS. She is doubtless tho oiily living iierssji in Germany who actually saw Na.pdleon's army march i'hroitgli on its Way to Jfo.scotf, Later she yaw the Hussiiui Cossacks qiioss f;ho frontier chasing the FreJioji hack. ].teclwi:g Staviie was lx>rn at Pleschen, oi! the .Russian frontier., mi October !f>, : 1791, the daughter of a small innkeeper. : Hoihri.g mneiiibers therefore the passing of Jerome's right wing of the (irand Army. She says Hie troops behaved ver.v well, but ''the. beggars wouldn't oat black bread," alid lier mother 'killed Recti; and . ehickeiiß ftyr them. On the other hand, she remembers wifli terror the pas.ciiig of Cossacks, lier fnllier lied with all his oitft.fe into a- , jieighbom'tiig forest to esenpe tlieri], and ■ fw days JTedv.'fir carried food to her . father thfre. Despite lier age, TToitwifr still acts i)S. Koosegii'l (minder .of geese) to .Dnrmowo, where slm is kn&jrn fis "Babusia" (grand-1 j mother). ' |i