Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-24

 period of fifteen months. His occupa- tions at that place were much like those at Valenee and Ajaceio. He performed his military duties in Q desuIt0ry way, brt with more exactitude than tho French code of military ethics at that time required. But military duty de- mauded only @ fraction of his time; the rest was given to that intense but frag mentary study by which his mind was trained and supplied with wide range of information.
 The winter of 1768-89 was passed by Bonaparte in his quarters at Auxonne. As yet, Lieutenant Bonaparte had never as Q soldier drawn blood, or seen it drawn by others His restlessness now bore him rapidly on to action. His pas sion for doing something and for fol lowing his destiny'-a fiction which he was always dwelling upon-led him to commit himself (ambiguously) to the C0rsican patriots His adroitness was such, however, that he kept ever cord to his purposes whereby he might re- cover himself for France In fact, he knew not what thing he would be called to do, or in what cause his sword should first bo actually unsheathed. His nature was always to avail himself of the first contingency. Napoleon is doubtless such was his sleepless yigilanoe-the only great man of history who never lost an opportunity
 Bonaparte was with his regiment, so- called "of Iron, at Auxonne, when the great Revolution in France began. Within a month from the trifing event at Seurre, the States General assembled at Versailles There, on the 5th of May, 1789, the most remarkable political body of modern times went into session, on the condition of France and man. kind. There was a procession of great men; q gathering to their seats in the Hall of Menus; a seating of six hundred representatives of the people; a looking down from the gallery of the young Baroness de Stael- -Holstein on the heads of Riquetti de Mirabeau the philosophio Volney, the lean Jean Paul Marat, the big young Danton of Arcis-sur-A the 1.-the Camille, the Sea-green Robe- spierre, and the rest.
 AG was GuS DGS41lIAUE DL e4AO SAtek OA much-the opening of small creyasse in the great dyke whereby feudal civ ilization had walled ill the destinies of mankind for centuries Outside that an- cient wall lay the roaring ocean, soon to rush in wave on wave till the deluge, fecked with blood, should rise to the pinnacles of all palaces, and splash the domes of all cathedrals.
 The effects of the extraordinary move ment thus begun for the reform of the French nation were strikingly diverse in the different parts of the kingdom France was as yet homogeneous in noth- ing. The towns of the South, under the loyal sentiments of the old Provencal race, received the news in one spirit, and the towns of the North in another.
 On men themselves the news fell from week to week with varying effects ac- cording to their personal characters and prejudice of race. In general, they who had imbibed the principles of the new French philosophy either went after the Revolution or ran before it waving a flag. Such a mind was Bonaparte's. No doubt he was born revolutionist- provided always he could himself con- trol the revolution. His nature was fit ted in every part for that state of fruit ful anarchy which tends again to order. He was essentially a man for the storm and hurricane, but suited best the after stages of the tempest.
 Would not this revolutionary fire in France leap the sea and kindle itself in Corsica? Does not occasion now offer for the recovery of Corsican independence! Does not the path of destiny open by way of Aja9cio rather than by way of