The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-10-22
YOUNG NAPOLEON DgspoNneNr.
Cad News From His Home Made the Az,
tiIIeryman Talk of Suicide.

Cad News From His Home Made the Ar
tiIIerynlan Talk of Suicide.
Early in August, 1887, little rebel.
lion, known as the 1.-TWO Cent Revolt, I"
broke out in Lyons over an attempt to
reassert an ancient feudal right concern
Ing the sale of wine which had long
oeen in allegiance. The neighboring gar
risons were ordered to furnish their re-.
EpeetiVe quotas for its suppression
Bonaparte's company was sent among
the others, but the disturbance was al
ready euelled when he arrived, and the
month he spant at Lyons was so agree
able that, as ne wrote his uncle Fesch,
he left the city with regret ito follow
his destiny" His regiment mad been
ordered northward to Douay, in Elan
ders and there he rejoined it about the
middle Of October.
The short time he spent under the in,
element skies Of that frontier fortress
was dreary one. Bad news came from
home Joseph had some time before
turned his eyes toward Tuscany for 3
possible career In order to test his
chances of success at court, he had made
application for an empty. decoration
The answer to his request had been
gracious permission to prove his Tuscan
nationality, which was Of course equiv
alent to a repulse Utterly without suc-
cess in finding occupation in Corsica
and hopeless as tc France, he was now
about to make a final desperate effort
and, decorated or not, to go in person 60
Florence ana to seek employment of any
kind which offered. Lucien, the arch.
deacon, was seriously i'll, and General
Marbeuf, the last influential friend of
the family, was dead. Louis had been
promised scholarship in one of the
Eoyal artillery schools. Deprived of his
patron, he would probably lose the ap.
pointment.
Finally the pecuniary affairs Of Nine.
De Bonaparte were again entangled and
now appeared hopeless. She had for
some time received state bounty for
planting mulberry trees, as France was
introducing silk culture into the island
The inspectors had condemned the years
work and were withholding the allow.
ance. Her letter put an end for time
to all study, historical or political. Ma.
poleon Immediately applied, as his
mother requested, for leave of absence,
that he might instantly SCI out to her
relief. His request was refused. He
sould obtain no leave until January.
nespondent and anxious, he moped,
grew miserable and contracted slight
malarial fever, which for the next six
or seven years never entirely relaxed
its hold on him. The pages of his jour-
nal for the ensuing weeks show how
dispirited he was, and contain, among
other things, a long. wild, pessimisti'
rhapsody, in which there is talk of sui.
eide. The plant is Of the degeneracy
among men, of the destruction of prim.
tive simplicity in Corsica by the French
occupation, of his own isolation and of
his yearning to see his friends onte
more. Life is no longer worth while.
His country gone, apatriot has naughT to
live for, specially when he has no pleas
ure and all is pain, when the chmao-
ter of those about him is to his oven az
moonlight to sunlight If there. wers
but single life in his way, he would |
bury the avenging blade Of his mupTy
and her violated laws in the bosorA of |
the tyrant. Some of his complaining
was even less coherent than this. IS is
absurd to take the morbid onfpouring |
seriously, except in so far az, 1t goes to
prove that its writer was Is victim Of
the sentimental egoism into which the
studies Of tie eighteenth
century had degenerated aMd to sug-
gest that possibly if he had not been
Napoleon he might have been Wer
Their. Sloane's 81 life of Napv
'eon" In Century.
Are Thanks Unnecessary
"a great deal is said about men be.
ing thanked for giving up their seats in
the street cars to women, said a man
in conversation with a friend "New,
For my part, don't want to be thanked
FOR simply doing my duty"
"But is it your duty" asked the
friend, ''to give up seat for which
7ou have paid and stand up the entire
rip to accommodate strangerf"
81 look at it as duty. 1t is deal
Easier for man to hang TO strap than
t is for woman The fact that
woman is standing while l sit annoys
ne. 1t does not matter in the least to
ne that she is stranger. / feel under
obligations to give her my place"
''That is gallantry, sneered his
riend.
''It comes uearer 80 being reciprocity
Every few days soma man gives my wits
n mother a seat in a crowded car, SO ]
~ to pass the courtesy on. Only yes
erday saw every man in Gratiot
venue car give up his seat to gome
Not one was thanked, or look
d as if he expected to be, OF indeed
ave the woman in the case chance to
hank him. 1t was done as if all be.
onged to one family, but the true spirit
po1iteness was in the atmosphere, and !
hanks though not audible, were felt. :
o tell the truth, it embarrasses me to :
ave woman repeat that set formula,
Thank you, sir "
II guess you're not often embat
assed, F" retorted his friend cynioally !
nd there the conversation ended. - Do
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Irony of Fate. '
1t was the irony of fate that both DIT |,
oomis, the celebrated New York spe-
alist in pulmonary diseases, and his
rst wife should die of pneumonia. DE-
oomis was one of the first prominent
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