The age-herald., 1898-01-02

manist-and places the recipient of a pub lie education on the same plane as one who receives food from the state Hezsays free school houses and free soup houses are on a par That's why he is called "Souphouse Charlie" Not a very aristo cratic nickname for possible 1fnited States senator, possible emperor of France, and one of the most arstocratic men in an aristocratic state, not to mention the fact that he is millionaire. And yet he is every inch loyal American and dearly loves his state and his country. He shrugs his graceful shoulders in most Parisian manner at the mention of his French claims and the royal origin of his family. On the other hand his brother,
 Col. Jerome Napolean Bonaparte,
 who died in 1894, was totally different in every respect, and gloried in his distin- guished ancestry. A graduate of West Point a brilliant officer in three European wars and decorated by nearly every sover- eign in Europe, his whole soul was cen tered on having the French chamber or deputies remove the bar sinister from ms family escutcheon; as, by his sword ne had rendered France signal services on the field of battle, he had right to ask 1t, and he did When the chambers adverse decision was brought to him he dramatic ally broke his sword over his knee violent ly threw it from him and donnng civilian dress left France.
 
 ial honors. His grandmother, the beaut1ful and high-spirited Betsey Patterson, said when her father opposed her marriage to Prince JercGne, that she would rather De ths, wife of such man for a single hour than the mate of any American for life time. MT. Bonaparto, transposng the his- toric utterance of his iI-starred grand mother, is quoted as saying to friend that he would rather be a senator from the grand old state of Maryland than the starred and decorated president of the French republic. How true this quotation is no one knows, as 1t is the fashion in Bal timore to ascribe remarkable utterances to him.. To see this remarkable man Is to carry him forever in ones minds eye. He is hard man to forget. His individuality is distinctive. He wears a hat like no other man. His gloves are different and they are never buttonde, and his walk is such that on seeing him block away one says instinctively, Why, there's Charles J. Bo- naparte." Every word he uters goes right to the point. Severn Teackle Wallis once said of him that "a judge could forget what was in the Lords prayer but he could not forget what was in the Lords prayer, but he could not forget the contents of one of Bonaparte's briefs. He is 55 years old and has no children, so unless he leaves offspring, the American family of Bona parte, with it's romantic and sensational origin, will die with him.
 In view of the absurd and ridiculous ac- counts of this American branch of French royalty which periodically crop out in the French, English and American press, 1t may be well, just at this time when the name Is so prominently brought before the public, to give for once a true and accurate account of the Bonapartes, from this. the seat of the family and to tell the story of the sad and romantic career of its beauti- full founder.
 The story of Madame Bonapartes life reads like fairy tale. It is one of the most romantic and pathetic in the history of this or any other country, and concerns the lives of the makers of history inti- mately as does that of Lucreta Borgia, Catherine de Medici or Charlotte Corday, though in an entirely different way.
 Married at Eighteen, Deserted al Twenty. Her wit feared by wits and her beauty