The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-06-12
YOUNG NAPOLEON DEsPoNDeNr.
aad News From His Home Made the Ar.
tilleryman Talk of Suicide,

aad News From His Home Made the Ar.
tilleryman Talk of Suicide.
Early in August, 1887, aslittle rebel
hon. known as the 1.-TWO Cent Revolt, :"
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-.
spective quotas for its suppression.
Bonaparte's company was sent among
the others, but the disturbance was al.
ready auelled when he arrived, and the
month ne spent at Lyons was so agree
able that, as he wrote his uncle Fesch,
he left the city with regret TO follow
his destiny" His regiment had 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.
clement skies Of that frontier fortress
was dreary one. Bad news came from
home. Joseph had some time berors
turned his eyes toward Tuscany for a
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 q
gracious permission to prove his Tuscan
nationality, which was of course equiv
alent to repulse. Utterly without sue
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 to
Florence and 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
royal 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
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
could obtain no leave until January.
Dependent and anxious, he moped,
grew miserable and contracted slight
malarial fever, which for the next sig
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, long, wild, pessimistic
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 chniao-
ter of those about him is to his own as
moonlight to sunlight If there. were
but single life in his way, he would |
bury the avenging blade of his houptry
and her violated laws in the bosorn Of |
the tyrant. Some of his complaining
was even less coherent than this 1t is
absurd to take the morbid oafpouring
except in so far az it goes to
prove that it's writer was Is victim Of |
the sentimental egoism into which the
studies of tie eighteenth
century had degenerated and to sug-
gest that possibly if he had not been
Napoleon he might havb been Wer,
Their. -Professol Sloane's ~ life of Napo.
leon" in Century.
The return of the tiara seems to>de-
note that the style of hairdressing is
again in the ascendant This ought to
be good news to all except the divinely
all woman, to whom the loss of an
noh or two by a couture dressed low in
The neck was immaterial To the aver
,ge woman the Madonna style of head
lress was certainly handicap. 1t sug-
yested a revival of the archaic scarcely
more in keeping with the ordinary Brit
sh profile than the professed appreoia-
ion of Botticelli is with the ordinary
British character. Pail Mall Budget.