The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-28
NAPOLEON AS A NOVELIST.
Discovery of a Work of Fiction Written
by Bonaparte In His Youth.

Discovery of a Work of Fiction Written
by Bonaparte In His Youth.
Napoleon, when about to enter on
his adventurous career, committed to
his uncle, Cardinal Fesch, a box of
MSS. containing papers written from
his sixteenth to his twenty-fourth year.
After the cardinals death these papers
fell into various hands, In 1847 Lord
Ashburnam bought them for the ex-
orbitant price of forty thousand dol
lars. They now belong to the royal
library of Florence, and will soon ap-
pear in book form under the auspices
of Mr.. Frederick Mason. The story
was written at Auxoune, its author, a
lieutenant of cavalry, being then in
the garrison of that place, and nine
teen years of age.
AS a youth Napoleon Bonaparte
adored England, the prime author of
his future downfall, and detested
France, whose idol and supreme ruler
he was yet to be. These prejudices
came out prominently in the story,
which is of the Observation-Disclosures sort,
and which, written by hand less IA
nous, would be dismissed as the very
crude production of youth whose inn
agination reveled in scenes of carnage
and horror.
A grim old Sicilian warrior, who has
fed from civilization and with his
daughter inhabits steep, barren rock
in the Mediterranean known as the
Island of Garzona, tells the story. He
had led revolt against the hated
French lasting eight years. At it's
close forty of his one hundred soldiers
had been executed, his parents, wife
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his eyes, and his daughter carried off
made him swear eternal hatred and
vengeance against the French.
He was not allowed to remain unmo-
Tested on his rocky island. One day
seven Turks landed there with three
prisoners, one of whom they killed.
One of the two others, who were set
at liberty, proved to be the long lost
daughter. The third, Frenchman. the
old man drove from him, bidding him
hide in cave from the light of day and
show his presence under penalty of
death. For protection the daughter
donned male attire. :.
Frenchmen kept landing at the is
land, and were pretty sure to be muir
dered by the father and his daughter.
One time, when two French vessels
were wrecked off the rocks and the
crews swan ash ore, this lovely pair
killed them all. At another time, when
French ship was near laundering,
the old man, moved by the lamentable
cries of the poor wretches, spared their
lives to his lasting regret. Here he
parenthetically remarks that he is
man, and that ''before one grows hard
and bad enough to be a king or minister
he must have stifed all the feelings
that belong to human nature
These French monsters proved un-
grateful and put on the airs of mas
ters. When they returned to their ship
our hero, who had previously plunged
his stiletto into the hearts of two of
them, arming himself with brace of
stilettos and four pistols, boarded the
ship and slew every living soul on
board. Then the father and daughter
took possession of the ships furniture
and treasures and dragged the bodies
of the victims to their home altar, where
the fumes of their burning flesh rose in
''a novel incense which seemed to please
the Deitvo