The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-04-24
NAPoLeoN's DssPoNDENcY.
HAD Ne~s from Hia Home usde Rfs
TaIk Of suicide

HAD News from His Home usde Rfs
TaIk Of Suicide.
The agreeable and studious life al
Nalence was soon ended. writes Prof.
Sloane in Century Early in August,
17s1. little rebellion. known as tho
"rwo-cent Revolt. broke out ia Lyons
over an attempt To- rcas>ert an ancient
fcudal right concerning the sale Of wine
which had long been in abeyance. The
neighboring garrisons were ordered to
furnish their respective quotas for its
suppression. Bouaparte's company was
sent among others, hut the disturbance
was already quelled when lac arrived,
and the month he spent at Lyons was
80 aVrepab bile that. a. he wrote his uncle
Fesch he left the city with regret TO
follow his DESTINY" His regiment had
been ordered northward 10 Dousy in
Flanders and there lac reioined il about
the middle Of October.
The short time he spent under the in
element skies ~ that frontier fortress
was drcary one Bad news came from
home Joseph had some time before
turned his eyes towards Tuscany for
possible career In order to test his
chance, ~ success at court he had
made application for IN empty decora-
tion. The answer tu his request had
been gracious permission to prove his
Tuscan nationality. which was, Of
course, equivalent to a repulse. Utterly
without success in finding occupation
in Corsica. an hopeless a. to France he
was now about To make q final desper-
ate effort. aud. decorated or not. TO 90
in person Ia Florence and To seek EN-
ployment of any kind which offered.
lucien. the archdeacon. was seriously
i'll and Gen. Marbeuf. the last infiuen-
tial friend OF the family. was dead.
Louis had been promised a scholarship
in one of the royal artillery schools; de-
prived of his patron. he would probably
lose the appointment.
Finally, the pecuniary affairs OF
Nine. de Buonaparte were again en-
tangled and now appeared hopeless.
She had for some time received "A 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 allowance. Her letter
torical or political. Napoleon imme
diatcly applied. as his mother request
ed. for leave Of absence. that he might
instantly set out to her relief. His re-
quest was refused lie could obtain no
leave until January
Despondent and anxious, he moped.
grew miserable and contracted a 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
disprited he was, and contain, among
other things. long, wild, pessmistic
rhapsody. i'm which there il talk OF
suicide. The plaint is of the degen-
eracy among men, Of the destruction OF
primitive simplicity in Corsica by the
French occupation, of his own isolation.
and Of his yearning to see his friends
once more. Life il no longer worth
while; his country gone, a patriot has
nHught 10 live for. specially when he
has no pleasure and all is pain-when
the character Of those about him is to
his own a. moonlight To sunlight. II
there were but single life in his way,
he would bury the avenging blade OF
his country and her violated laws in
the bosom of the tyrant. Some of his
complaining was even less coherent
than this. IL is absurd 10 take the
morbid outpouring seriously, except in
So far a. it goes to prove that it's writer
was victim OF the sentimental egoism
into which the psychological studies OF
the eighteenth century had degen-
Grated, and to suggest that possibly II
he had not been Napoleon he might
have been a Werther.