Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-03

Iishsd as pensioners. The solicitation was tbat che young fellows shoala he educated at Inc expense of the state Aarbouf invented B fiction. 6eeked with fact, about the mobility oI his wards. and ths pssition WAS granted finally as se Napoleon Bat Joseph had now E,asaed the limit 5f his eleventh year. and was no longer eligibls-aniesa by violation 9f law. He must therefore ba diverted to aie priesthood, while the younger Dre6her was asHi gnsd, aE the public charge to the military academy zt Brienuszlas sChapefle. 5a the right bank 0t Ehe aube. in tha department . She same name. . hundred and eighteen milss from Paris. Thlther he vas 5ransz ferred in the alter part af April, ITS. and was admitted as q cadet.
 At Aagnn. she chief business had been 10 teach him French He applied him. self closely so this task, but not very sneeesafnlly. He learned to speak French. brokeniy, with an Italian ac- cent To the end of his fife he never ac= guired a nice knowledge af the adopted tongue His grammar was brolsea. his composition thnnderstruek, and hi4 spelling hereueaL His practical lznowI edge of ahs language which hs was des. tined TO nse for forty-two years in hi4 intercourse with men was sufficient; bui his mind was never telexens of 5eohnt. calities.
 This trait of negleoting ths exactitudea was strongly manifested from Hapo- leon g chald hood. lie went as fax as the practical in whatever subject he touch ed; bat having seized thus much, ha cared for nothing else He desired cor. reetness u oaherss for that was useful to hina. bUs as for himself. he wanted only aggregate results and a knowledge o4 their practical advantage, All authors have commented on [ he inaccuracies and lapses in he Hapoleonic correspondence and manuscripts. Itbecane his habit to sfnr over. ia his rapid way, the errors in Ais writing. and his arrogance seem d tO convince him that. wnIle correct spelling was an accomplishments ia ped. agoaues. it was rather fault in greaa men
 Tine yonng Bonapafte IS described by his master aa being oE solemn deIaeanor; rarely laughing. never happy or mirtn- fui; no disposition for piayiaQi proud and solitary; easily wounded; always resentfu1; learning with lightning ike rapldiGy, but stopping short of correct nessi vain of his faculties; patriotism almost morbid: disliklng the powerful foreign race with which his lot had been castl locking back regreuully to Gorsi- ca, and (most unboylike] thinking more of his country than he did of his home and mother
 Already, before leaving Autun, the pale little Bonaparte fell into frequent quatrels with his French schooImates about the CoEsieaa revolanonl They in- suited him with the charge that his countrYmen had been towards = else they would nave won their independ ence. To this he answered angrily that if the French had outnumbered lls peo- pie only four ts one, the invaders would have been defeated Military calculation already
 Tho military academy aE Brienne was one of ten of like kind recently estab. hshed in the kingdom Besides these, there were two higher schools, one tt Paris and the other at La Fleche. This system had superseded another which had failed on account of its unpopular. ity. The military education and tho right thereto was plum for the nobles. Boys of the Third Estate had therein no part or lot. in tho schools were gathered the weakened reproductions of q moribund nobility, The goyernors of the schools were even as the cadets The instita- tions degnerated, until thero was il pop ular reaction against them. There Rns a reform. headed by the Church. Nsw schools were established. and monks were put in charge of theml
 At the tina when the boy Napoleon went to Brienne, the remarkable condi- tion was presented of system of mill tary schools in charge or the monastis