Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-24

palace IN the mos5 gpfrnuiu cIty ~ ,i,-
world despatch his elder playmate as am
hssSador 10 the Pope Of Romel
What were the civil and social Influences
around the schooIhousc ~ Bonapartei The
sentiments Of TINT place are among the
most potent and enduring forces Of life.
Tho child nature iinbhes unconsoiously
the prevailing principles OF the hour, and
tho character is forming willis tho first
hesltant words are COINED from the prim
err Tho boy Napoleon had around his
sohoolroom-ns around his oradle--an ngi.
tatod atmosphere 1t was banked with
the rocedlng clouds Of revolution. There
was lightning on the rim and blood on tho
ffingus.
Tho majority Of the Corsicans had ac-
ceptcd the French domination Some still
remembered Genoa with affection; and
many sighed for independence Among the
latter were tho BuonapArtes. Tho feeling OF
regret for the lost causo began to wnno
about the time that Napoleon was sent to
school; but there was stlll IN his heart
drop OF inherited bitterness on account Of
the French conquest. To looked back an
grily ut the terrible conditions surround
Ing him in his childhood AS late us his
twentieth year he broke out In passion.
try was dying. Thirty thousand French,
vomited on our shores, drowning tho
throne Of liberty in waves OF blood-such
was the horrid sight which first met my
Wow. This cries Of the dying the groans
OF tho oppressed, tears Of despair, sur
rounded my cradle Mt my birth" Tho ut
torrance shows how hardly the future ON
peror Of the French himself In youth bo-
came a Frenchmnn.
When. from tho sixth to the ninth year
Of his nge, tho boy Bonapnrte attended
school IN his native town, three lines fa.
dated before his feet One OF these was
dim and cloudcd, but glorinod with patches
Of extremc light. IL was the way into tho
kingdom OF that New Philosophy which
was just then revealing itself with such
brillinncy in France. A second and we'll
trod way led strhightly to tho Church.
Rome was great and honorable Her re-
wards for dillgont ambition were rich and
certain. The young nspirnnt who entered
her colleges might well expect omolument
and reputation. Tho third path led dan
Rerously to tho military life. Mono might
at that time discern the coming upheayal
OF society, with It's concomltant reign OF
tho sword, But tho agitations Of tho
epoch were sufficient to encourage war,
and to offer measure OF inducelnont to
follow In tho path of military glory.
The taclturn sohoolhoy of a jaCcio had
these three open ways before him. From
the first, he WINS precludod by the disposl.
tlons Of his family, intensified In himself.
lie never had the scholastic trait. His
abilities rs pupil, and afterwards as a
military cadet, showed nothing OF tho
philosophe. Indeed no concoived-how
early In boyhood we know not-a projr
dieo ngninst philosophy and tho philoso.
pberg as well. As for tho Church, he had
an inbred admiration for Rome; but the
kind of life offered In tho priesthood was
without attractions for him personally.
Uo was williuu TINT Jogcph md other OF
his friends should become priests mud
bishops; but not himself, Neither tho
scholars gown nor the priests surplice
offered tho slightest attraction to his i'm.
animation.
Tho condition Of tho Buonaparto family
nbout tho years 177O.7s was critical. Oar.
10, tho father had given an Interested adj.
hesion to the French lilo Ind hIa homes
from tho annexation. Ho would keen his
tItles md rccoyor the nroperties formerly
beIonginp 10 tho family The Buounpnrto
estates in Corsica had been mostly lost
Some Ind bcon oonfIscatcd Inv thu Genoeso
marty and converted into JcsnIt schools
Tho recent revolution lind reduced Carlo's
means almost 10 nnupht. He wns himself
of no ronutation as nm ecnnomist Ills
family had rnpIdly multiplied Two chill.
dren dIed In Infancy between tho birth az
NapoIpon and that of Lucien. In 177b
irhe family was brousbt almost IN nennrv
Carlo do Buanonnrto could NOT get hnek
his prnpertlos M, priviloro Of writing
| Ria name with n do ala not oo,nncnsnto
for bls losses Un STRUGGLED viii ndvor.
sitv and sought tbo Nh az influential
| fricnds Atnong tbcs, m, most ovnIIn.
bla wns General NJnrbccpf mn, lottcr In
177S nnnonlcd ON hcb,If ~ bIs Cnrsicnn
friends TO tic authorIt,ea In p,ris Tor thn
nrjyilcpe IN c,iuoatins tho nnonnnnrtn
| boys Ia France M tba oypenso az Tho Tovnl
trcnsury Thls tbiny mi.h, be donc.-n,o.
| vided tho nlnlionnts should bo nndcr Ton
ysnrs az noe nnd be nble Ia sbo,v fonr
strains az noble blood I'm tboir yo,nsl In
| tho enso Of Inc I,ovs nnononnrtc thIs could
not DO provod, and nffnirs In the home
stcnd want from bnI ia ,vnrsc
An mi. iuncturo history. rather than
man cn,n, n tho reso,o iTronca ,vos n,
N'u Nu'se VI DahisEup'oy' ohe hhahce
an,',sss, a,'us ni,usier was nppoin'cu, nnu