Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-06
NAPOLEON.

NAPOLEON.
 a good pupil in mathematics, and early manifested his herOism by standing up bravely ill his threadbare garments and pathetic poverty among the sons of wealth, who hooted and insulted the pale Corsican and doubtless called him a "jay."
 Doubtless at no time in his whole life did his heart sink lower, even when he bade adieu to the Old Guard, than when he wrote homo begging his parents to tallo him back and spare his proud spirit this bitter humiliation.
 In 17S5 Napoleon was made a sub lieutenant of artillery on salary that would not have paid for his cigarettes had he used them.
 Napoleon's family shortly afterward joined the rebels, as they were called, because they undertook to free Corsica from the French yoke. But it was de cidod that Corsica looked better in French yoke, and so sho continued to ap- pear ill one. Napoleon was compelled to fight against his own family in this campaign.
 It might bo well here to say that the father gamblcd good deal and died poor. The mother was a noble, resolute woman, and to her tho Little Corporal owed no doubt the chief clements of his greatness.
 In 1893 Napoleon was made captain, by which his pay was raised two francs, or about 40 cents, and another pair of red artillery pantaloons bestowed upon him. They were very baggy and cheap, but they covered brave heart, and by cutting armholes ill them Napoleon, who was a short waisted man, even at the height of his popularity, was en- ablcd to go without vest
 As lieutenant colonel before Toulon ! he distinguished himself, and even at ! the head of a soiled pack of ragtag and ] bobtail yeGmanry he saw the proud armies of Spain and England compelled to evacuate the city.
 In 1794 he was made brigadier gen eral and sent to Italy, whero he was greatly respected, but Inc got mixed up | with the Robespierres, and as a result was imprisoned ill Paris July 2S. A new period of poverty and misery now followed. His command was taken | from him; also his salary. He could
  | thin and threadbare artillery trousers he l sat upon the bare stone fiagging of his cell, and by doing so day after day some- how got tho impression that this is a | cold, cold world. But fortunately revolution broke out in Paris, and whilo looking for some one tn be shot at tho authorities sud | denly thought of Napoleon. He was des- | peratC Death to him would be large, attractivo huOn. He was called to take 1 command. He gave the French hood l lumS heroic prescription of grape and l filled them with fear and appendicitis He drove them to their holes and made them stay there Thus he nipped revo- I lution i'll the bud and laid the foundation for a vast pedestal. which he afterward had tho brief privilege of occupying.
 March 9, 1796, Napoleon married Josephine Beauharnais, the widow of I General Beauharnais, who, during the revolution, or reign of terror, had re- ceived i'll the neck slight testimonial from the French people which left Josephine ad interim widow, full of ginger and high purposes, bereaved, yet hopeful, ambitious, high spirited, well gaited, travelling we'll either single or double, and not afraid of the cars.
 Napoleon made the same error here that so many great and gifted men make. Learned ill mathematics, tactics | and the general business of command he yet knew little of women. Any one who has ever been ill Paris could have tolG him that he must be firm.
 He should have studied woman as ht would war, for was she not to become part of the history of France? "But, nay, nay" said Napoleon. "l haven't time to study this gentle phe nomenon.F / must wade in blood fol weeks at time and gaze down the can mons mouth a good deal of the time Why should put in my evenings at thu social functions and my afternoons a the baseball game? All that can d, when I am emperor"
 He thought that Josephine would joy fully remain at home and scrape lin while he went abroad piling the ground with MOslems slain or scaled the Alp or anything else that seemed to need it
 Why does great man flatter himsel that he can go away for 10 or II year , seeing the country and leaving his wifi at home to look out at the window da, after day in @ hotel watching the bu go down to meet No. II or to take pas sengers to No. 10, yet expect to fin' her on his return younger and nor beautiful, more devoted and more will ing to occupy the same room IF year 0 more watching the bus as it goes to mee No. II or to take passengers to No. 10 going west?
 The biographer has little space to di gress here, but had Napoleon taken Jose ' phine with him whenever he went int a battle it would have been great kind '; ness not only to her, but to the historian
 If Napoleon and Josephine had fough l. more against the common enemy, the F would have been on Q better peace foot !; ing themselves.
 Suffice it to say here that in afte ,. years they were separated, childless, an
 Josephine, who, by her intrigues, what S,,,.. &l.rsS, ,,,arv he, lad s,aas1o Naw01an