Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-07-14
THE WOES OF GENIUS.
HOW 1T HAS WORKED AND
STARVED IN PARIS
nerIlos. the Composer, Danlele han'n'
the italian Patriot aud ho""f'
Balsac struggled Against fo'e'''
victor Hugo's Early Troubles

ters from Paris. "Eyerything IS TO
bo found here. good and bad sue
lime and ridiculous You may DO as
YOU please, laugh. cry, 90 pleasure
hunting or think Of nothing OUT
business Nobody takes any notice
of YOU. | do not think there l. city
on earth where there are more
pianists or more monkeys
some OF the youthful geniases
which Paris absorbed starved, Some
killed themselves because they were
starving Some eked out a pititul
existence al work dlstasteiul %
them some reached. through long
toll or at bound the pinnacle oi
reputation aud Of fortune.
Nothing is more pathetic than the
picture OF some Of these most bril-
liant minds OF the world dying, as
the boy poet Chatterton did Ia Eng
land in poverty and obscurlty, leaS"
ing posterity to set them ON their
pedestals in the gallery Of the worlds
great
In this way died Berlloz the dis
appointed musician, disgusted with
the worlds unapprectativeness aud
misunderstood aud belittled By
France. while Russia, America and
Germany worshippcd him Ito wrote
musical criticisms for Paris great
paper Le journal des Drbats bound
by the chain Of necessity aud hunger
To turn out uunumbere newspaper
articles informal he called them
while uusung symphonies were ia
his brain and when his pen dropped
from his hand by reason Of weakness
and illness Thus keeping OF the
wolf, he toilcd on tin mis- death uu
able to complete the work ~ music
writing which he haa planned and
unconscious ~ the coming admira
ton Of his genius
Almost within sight OF Beriioz's
window in Paris lived Danieie ManIn.
the patriot OF Italy, aud ex ,prc-i.
dent Of the republic OF Venice. Gays
the Philadelphia Times Tie waz
very poor, lived up under tho roof OF
tai apartment house and after
the death OF his vito and daughter
gave lessons in Italian 10 exc out his
scanty living Among hi. pupils
were the two daughters Of Charles
Dickens This continued tin his
death In poverty aud disappointment.
the sadness Of which might have
been mitigated could he have bridgcd
the chasm Of years ana seen the
hOnors that Venice nov heaps upon
his marble tomb
Poycrty-stricken was the earlier
Partisan experience % llonore de
Balzac He lived in Il CARROT whose
only furniture was bed, table and a
chair. The room he rented for three
sous tthree centsl a day lived with
out fire. except little charcoal.
wore flannel shirts TO save laundry
bills, and paid for his daily food. n
sum almost intellectually small. as il
described in his correspondence =
In these dark days he wrote 10 his
sister: ~, thy brother. prednattucd
70 celebrity. am already nourished
like great mau that is Ia say. I
am dying Of hunger Eysu after
sixteen romances had come from his
pen. and after his name vas known
through all France. he took refuge
with jules Sandcau and was afraid
TO go out on the street IN tho dny.
time for fear Of arrest TO- debt
From this place his creditors secured
his removal to prison
Unhappy too, was the fate of Poe 1
Moreau, who came TO PARIS from
Provins when youth. and vas 10
poor that he wandered about tho
streets at night, being unable 20 paw
for a lodging. begged shelter on tho
boats oil the Seine, or slept under a
tree in the BOis de BOuIoyne until
he was arrested MORGAN lived In
Paris five years in pitiable poverty
writing songs that have been sung
bY all France. and az the age 81 u
literally starved to death And yet
all have not been worsted in their
battle with poverty and some have
seen appreciation aud fortune.
Everyone knows Of the hard liie az
Victor Hugo when youth Of 10
living in garnet with his cousin
who came from Nachcz to stldy law
Victor had $40. on which no OK
isted for an entire year His father
had refused him "A living oxcept on
the condition that he resign litora.
ture. Almost decade after those
carly struggles. when Hugo was
writing "Notre Dame. " working din .
and night TO meet the demands 81
his publishers and locking the door
and throwing the key ont Of tho
window TO make himself prisoner.
even then he was racing neck and
neck with poverty.
We must not forget. too. the earle
struggles ard poverty Of Napoleon /
When young soldier, without
money and no particular prospects.
he lived In mean apartment far M
IN the fifth story of small hotel n
the Rue dc la Michediore. When mo
became an officer of artillery he lived
in the fourth story apartment will
two Of his aids.dc-camp. Louis AMI
Jounot, paying small rental. and
spending his spare pay in lessons n
a!ocution from Ialma, tho actor.
Corean Use for Human Hair,
Human hair is in great demand In
some OF the countries Of Europe. and