Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-15
the FAMOUS COMMUNIST,
Dalls Wales and Victor HugO's An.
hitiOn.
The Career Of the Famoas cOmmsnard aRd
Sketch oftAe Famous
frsaeh Poet

he Place de TOpera, ne cavalry began "
weep the boulevard and things became
more or less threatening, noticed that the
shopktepels in tho neighborhoOd had no
.ooner nut up their shutters and locked up
han they rushed to the scene Of action to
zee Wbat was going on. The Partisan ira
ition holds that the maintenance
If order in the streets is the affair Of the
oolice and the military, and that individual
,itiEens sre in no way bound to help. Their
privilege IS to look on and mark the strokes.
%. too. The politicians aRd hll other treneA
,ubic characters are regarded IS actors on
hst great stage, where, as HeIne says, me
ARTISANS are perpetuslly acting . raSl-
,omedy for the distraction Of humanity ana
ia bon Dieu.' The Ministers, the Deputies,
be journalists and the men Of letters may
a be regar5ed more or less a. gladlstors
ishGng among themselves for the smuSe-
cent Of q skepical crowd, them
elves skepdG and conscious OF their
ole. No more striking instance
{ this phenomenon could be found than the
Amous Communist, jules Wales, who died
February Ii, just on the eve OF the Gar
.iysl Wales made great deal OF noise IN
is life, sud yet when you ask what he did,
is not easy to ind the answer. Under the
mpire be was in opposition, Ike slI the
Dung men Of the day; be was poor and had
strong appetite for al that money can
uy; he had received an education which
uabled him to earn his living With his pen,
nd he turned round and cursed The uuiger-
ity which had given him that education.
le wss the noisest and most bowling OF the
afe orators OF the Latin Quarter a. the
me when Gambetta wss most formidable
val; Re 'eeame revOlt,r asa lst every
,ing. and demanded in the same after
Don the burning up Of the works OF Ho-
ler, Mohere and the classics, and the abO-
ZION Of society, Wales adopted under the
npire The role Of :ruculent Socialist,
I'd his main purpose IN life was 10 gain
oney. His talent as q writer and his rep
alton as reyolte caused YillemeSssnt Of
o Figaro to otter him 5000 yeT to
rite u daily Article in place OF RochefoTL
allies kept % his article Tor two months.
be readers then began to complain that he
Is ponotouOus, and so Wales was re-
rested 10 retire. Under the Commune he
IS covered with gold lace and vastly pulled
, with TIE importance OF his position, but
conduct was not especially Talorous, and
ward the end be managed to escape to
lglald, where lie lived until the amnesty.
ter the amnesty he returned to Paris.
oout q year ago be started 3 paper called
Cri du Peuple, g paragraph in which was
0 cause Of the Ballerich scandal aud the
sth OF the police officer Norbert Ballerich.
Since his return from exile have ire
emily seen and talked with Wales. My |
preston OF him is that be was . winter of |
ent and O traculent and bombastic hum |
2. Despite al his preaching about So |
hsm. snsrchy and fraternity, and about |
dignity Of the poor man, Wales was
rsonally almost wealthy. He inherited 4
ne money; be gained other money in
OK aud industrial speculations; and his
bits aud tastes were entirely those Of 3
1itslist- In the presence Of literary &C
ainlances Wales never attempted to
intain the seriousness OF his newspaper
,togic about dissmbovelling the capital
: and shooting the lawyers, any more
the Sctor of the stage attempts to
p Up the role which he has been inter
ting before the public.
I is to this love of the spectacle that
must largely attribute the position held /
Victor Hugo in the eyes Of the French
nGc. On inc 6essssion Of his SD birth
!, on Feb %, al Paris viii viii march with
,ners. bands and flowers. in front of the
Is house in the Avenue Eylan. Hugo,
bis long life OF labor, by his activity as
t prose writer, q politician, and
liant exile, and also by the marvellous
aner IN which he has managed his genius
n the commercial and advertising point
view, has become q sort Of idol In
nee, Hugo may be said to be the per-
.6cation Of literature; abroad he may
aid to be the personi6cstion of France.
old poet is still hale and hearty.
: the other day | had 3 long talk
his old friend Paul Msnrice
1t him. The Master" said N. Menrice,
rell, ard absolutely without any mslsdy
p6rmi;y except certain deafness. Often
sin see rs laughing at table, and with
Eenerous voice he viii say with pre-
ed anger All you are laughing down
? Nay I know what il is all aboutY
4 We tell him, and he joins in the gay
Some days Victor Hugo is brilliant
talks good deal; on other days he is
weary, and says little. BE still reads
newspapers and takes an interest in
is going on, and whenever there is 3
us vote to be taken he goes to the Sen.
He goes to bed much earlier than be
to and gets up later. At half past 2
on reception nights he is in bed, and
oes not rise until 10 in the morning;
se works in bed two or three hours be-
getting up.
Meurice described the poets bed as
Z arranged, 90 to speak, upside down,
= and bolster being placed at the foot,
at be may receive the light directly
the window. Victor Hugo's Worknow-
8 is not so much composition IS CLASH
90 and arrangement He has always
q great worker, and consequently be
masses of unpublished manuscript, |
ly produced doring his exile at Guern-
In an interesting volume Just pub
by NJ. Alfred Asselne, Victor Hu-
cousin, We find some interesting details
the poets indefAtigAble industry. His
N was "a little work is tiresome; 9 i
deal Of work v amusing" AT Haute-
House. where he lived with his two sons, |
WIS uP NANut 1AA 1
~ perfect command over his inspirs-
which he had made the slave Of bis
IS, he sat down to work TRANQUILITY, like
rkman at his piece. By noon be had
an bis hundred verses or his twenty
Of prose, without one erasure, and
tunes With additions and amph6cstionS
filed more than the page. He used
ork standing at q desk and walking
while he was composing. Then he
1 come down to breakfast and charm
his genisEty and good humor, BY his
and puns and word puzzles Imsg-
Ne author of the ChAtimsats composing
y r OharSdes like the following, which
1 believe, never been pObEshed before,
which the solution i moutop:
MN premier q toat eAak plAit,
N0u second haAt On bast est,
Men toat paitF
: unpublished works which Victor
q now arranging and putting IN or.