The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-12-17
NAPOLEON'S ONE -NOveL.
A Sensational Love story Written by the
Matchiess Corsican.

A Sensational Love story Written by the
Matchless Corsican.
The New York World has dragged
from its obscurity a sensational love
story written by Napoleon Bonaparte
in his college days. 1t is possible
that the story is a fake" but as
Bourienne, Napoleon's private secre-
tary, preserved it and handed it down
to posterity, the presumption is that
it is genuine. A glance at this forgot
ten romance shows that the great
Corsican possessed in no small degree
the gift of vivid and graphic story
telling. The short novel now rather
cruelty thrust upon the public reads
wonderfully like the intense and sensa-
tional dime fiction OF the present day.
Perhaps under favorable circumstances
Napoleon would have been the Dumas
of his day. but it is likely that his
first crude effort disguised him, and
he threw it aside. Undoubtedly the
poor and friendless student in those
days had the literary craze, and
had it bad. Besides his novel. he
wrote a drama, but he was no
better satisfied with this than
he was with his story. So he
reluctantly laid down the pen and took
up the sword. 1t is enough to make
the stern conquerer turn in his grave
to have this folly of his youth spread
before the eyes of the readers OF this
generation. There can be no doubt
that it is treating a great man very
unjustly and shabbily to make public
the literary efforts of his boyish days.
Very lew of our best writers would
show up well under such test. Some
OF our successful men have voluntarily
given to the world the compositions
written when they were in their teens.
but it is suspected that they revised
their work very carefully and made
radical changes. But the whole b6si-
ness shows how little is really known
of a mans inner life and his secret as
pirations. Napoleon's fellow-students
could form no estimate of his future
greatness, and those who knew him in
his maturer years never dreamed that
he had missed one of his pet aims in
life, and was, like Richelieu, failure
in literature. After all, even a great
man is very queer being. and some
times his thoughts. methods and mis-
takes are very much like those Of
small men.-Atlanta Constitution.
-Barnum's Arabs speak four lam
guages. but they prefer the one taught
them by their mothers at the home of
their birth in New Jersey.-Norris-
town Herald
The Robin and the Worm.
In the budding and leafing time OF
spring there is deal of natural his
tory on exhibition, and the study is al
ways of interest. Many people who
have lawns of their own and many
others who have front seats on the
park enjoy now every day the old-time
conflicts and the tug OF war between
the robins and the angle worms. How
the worm, hidden away in the grass.
discovers the robin is something no.
body can find out The fact is only
demonstrated after the row begins.
But in some mysterious way it be-
comes aware of the presence of the
bird, and seizes it by the beak. Then
the worm undertakes 10 drag the no bin
down under ground. ard the robin un-
dertakes to save itself-and the worm,
too. Sometimes the worm breaks in
two and the energetic robin performs
a backward sOmersault with the skill
OF an acrobat Sometimes the worm
comes out whole. so big that the robin
takes fright and sails off. When the
worm conquers the robin and pulls
him down into the ground, he disap-
peers from sight, and so there is no
proof of the fact. and some observers,
reasoning from that negative circum-
stance, deny that it ever occurred
Hartford COurant.