The age-herald., 1898-01-22
.a NAPOLEON L. LETTER WRITER.

While Napoleon III. was emperor of the
 French he turned the letters of his distin- | guished uncle, Napoleon the Great, over to | a commission to be edited and published. | At the head of these editors was his cousin | and the result was that nothing which | could in any way reflect upon the family | of the Bonapartes was allowed to make | it's appearance at that time Some letters | thus rejected have been awaiting their | time until now, after more than a genera ton, they have been collected and edited | by M. Leon Lecestre, the translation into English being from the competent hand of Lady Mary Lloyd. As might have been expected, they are not only quite as inter- esting in a historical sense as any that ap- | peared in the first collection, but of far more value to the student of human nature, there being an element of spice and mis- chief in every one of them. As whole, they serve to show that no monarch ever ruled with more of an iron hand or less sense of responsibility to the people than | the first Napoleon. His brothers and sis- ters were mere puppets in his hands, to be chastised and put to bed like so many i, children if they displeased him-and he | was not an easy man to please. His atti- | tude to Americans, sympathizers, perforce, | with the aims of the French revolution,
  where he instructs Fouche, his chief of | police, as follows:
 "Give orders to have Mr. Kuhn, Ameri- | can consul at Genoa, put under arrest for | wearing the Cross of Malta given him by the English, and as being an English age.it | His papers are to be seized and abstracts of them taken and he is to be locked up | in a secret place until you have reported to | me. Having accepted a foreign decora- l ton, this man ceases to be an American. 1 am sorry, by the way, that you should have communicated with the ambassador of the United States. My police know no ambassadors I am master in my own | house. If I suspect a man I have him | arrested.''
 | All Americans are familiar with the fact that Jerome Bonaparte married Miss Pat | terson during his period of exile in Balti- more and that their descendants are still | living in that city, highly honored and re- 1 spected. It is true he gave her up at his | brothers command and a glimpse of the emperors attitude toward him may be gleaned from letter written to their | mother, thus:
 | 'M Jerome Bonaparte has arrived at Lis | bon with the woman. I have ordered this prodigal son to go on to Milan, going through Perpignan. Toulouse, Grenoble and | Turin. I have informed him that any de- parture from this route would result in | his arrest. Miss Patterson has taken the | precaution of bringing her brother with l her. I have given orders to send her l DECK to America. IT she eVdOeS my OrQerS | and tries to come to Bordeaux or Paris she | is to be brought to Amsterdam and set | aboard the first American vessel. I shall | treat this young man severely if he shows | himself unworthy the name he bears dur | ing the only interview I intend to grant | him. If he shows Inclination to wash | away the dishonor with which he has stained my name by forsaking his | try's flag on land and sea for the sake of | a wretched woman I will cast him off for | I i'm a m " f11p1Q x1rhfo l will teach young soldiers the sacredness of | their duty and the enormty of the crime they commit when they forsake their flag | for a woman"
 Jerome was not alone in mourning his | brothers high displeasure. Joseph, king | of Naples, among other things, was his | favorite and he writes him respecting an-
 other member of the family in this man. | ner:
 "Lucien is behaving badly at Rome even going so far as to insult the Roman officers, | who are on my side, and Is more Roman | than the pope himself wish you to write | to him to leave Rome and retire to Flor | ence or Pisa. I do not wish him to stay | in Rome, and if he refuses to do as wish
 only await your reply to have him re- | moved by force. His conduct is scandal ous; he is my open enemy and the enemy
 of France. If he persists in these opinions | America will be the only refuge for him."
 Lucien came to adopt this view in respect | to America and actually set sail for this l country. An English ship-of-war captured | him, however, and he remained in Eng | land on parole until hostilties ended Ma poleon calls him fool, though in another place he expressed himself as believing him l to have more ability than any of the oth- CTS.
 | or Louis, another brother, he writes:
 "He is not without intelligence and has
 a good heart but even with these a man
 may make many mistakes and do deal n mic af rfc fe.. | be capricious and fantastical and the | works of Jean Jacques Rosseau have con-
 tributed to increase this disposition"
 Of the public press Napoleon had no
 opinion whatever except that it might be | used to serve his ends. He sends word | to the police:
 Make known my displeasure to the edit
 itor of the Journal des Debats,' who is printing nothing but nonsense in his pa- per that he must be ninny to say as he
 does in one of his Hamburg articles that the king of Sweden commands an army of | 100000 men with the help of England. Let him write an article making game of these
 100000 men for the issue tomorrow"
 Later he writes in a similar strain: 1 "The Eenglish have abandoned the Span- | fards in shameful and cowardly way. We are pursuing them hotly The Spaniards | who formed their left are crushed The | English, it appears, have sent for 100000 | horses, in order to get away more quickly | Have all this shown up in the newspapers. | Have caricatures made and songs and pop | uar ballads composed; have them trans | lated into Italian and German and crculat- | ed in Italy and Germany"
 There will not be found a great deal in | the volume, in spite of its size, which will
 make the admirers of the Little Cor
 poral' smile.
 OVERHEARD IN THE SHOP.
 From the Chicago News.
 Say, you make me tired" said the
 wagon wheel.