Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-04-09
YOUNG NAPoLLcN Ul1rcNolNT.
mad News From MS Home Made ths Ar
tiilorynnn TaIh Of Suicide.

NA1u news FROM Nltl Homo Made Eno AZ
uilcryninn TaIh os Suicide.
Early in August, 1887, a little rebel
lion, known as the Two Cent Revolt,
broke out in Lyons over an attempt to
reassert an ancient feudal right concern
ing tho sale Of wine which had long
been in allegiance. Tho neighboring gar
risons were ordered to furnish their ro-
speotivo quotas for it's suppression
Bonapartc's company was sent among
tho Others but the disturbance was al
ready quellcd when he arrived, and the
month no spent at Lyons was 80 agroo-
able that, as he wrote his uncle Fesch,
he left the city with rogret ito follow
his destiny" His regiment had been
ordered northward to Douay, in Flan-
dcrs, and there he rejoinod it about the
middle Of October.
The short time he spent under the in
clement skies Of that frontier fortress
was a dreary one. Bad news came from
home. Joseph had some time before
turned his eyes toward Tuscany for q
possible career. In order to test his
chances Of success at court, he had made
application for an empty decoration.
Tho answer TO his request had been q
gracious permission to prove his Tuscan
nationality which was Of course equiv
alent to a repulse Utterly without suo-
cess in finding occupation in Corsica
and hopeless as to France, he was now
about to mako a final desperate effort,
and, decorated OF not, to 60 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
tho family, was dead. Louis had been
promised a scholarship IN one Of tho
royal artillery schools. Deprived Of his
patron, ne would probably loso tho ap-
pointment.
Finally the pecuniary affairs Of Nine.
Go Bonaparte were again entangled and
now appeared hopeless. She had for
some time received q state bounty for
planting mulberry trees, as France was
introducing silk Oalture into tho island.
Tho inspectors had condemned tho years
work and were Withholding tho allow
ance. Her letter put an end Tor time
to all study, historical on political Ma
polcon Immediately applied, rs his
mother requested, for leave Of absence,
thnt he might instantly set out TO her
relief. His request was refused. He
could obtain no leave until january.
Despondent and Gnxions, 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 tho ensuing weeks show how
dispirited he was, and contain, among
other things, long. wild, pessimistic
rhapsody, in which there is talk of sui
eide. Tho plaint is of the degenoracy
among men, Of the destruction Of prim-
itive simplicity in Corsica by the French
occupation, Of his own isolation and Of
his yearning to see his friends once
more. Life is no longer worth while.
His country gone, patriot has naught ia
live for, specially when he hns no pleas
ure and all Is pain, when the charac.
tor Of those about him 10 to his own as
moonlight to sunlight If thero were
but a single life in his way, he would
bury the nvenging blade Of his country
and her violated laws in the bosom Of
the tyrant. Some of his complaining
was even less coherent than this. 1t is
absurd to take the morbid outpourina
seriously, except in so far as is goes ID
provo that its writer was a victim Of
the sentimental ogoism into which the
psychological studies Of tho eighteenth
century had degonerated aud to sug.
gest that possibly if he had not beer
Napoleon he might have been We
ther.-Professor Sloane's Life Of Napo.
leon" in Century.