The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-11

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turmoil for a number of yea s. France
became sup enc and then fell. Viewed
in his relations to his mother, his
brothers and sisters. his generals. soy
d'ess and fr ends of even his ca lest
years, Napoleon was naturally mag
unanimous, te; dsr-hearted sympathetic
and indulCent TO a fault. but his meas
ureless ambit on deluged Europe with
a sea Of blood and he coldly pusf ed
aside his wife. the Emp ess Josephine.
to wed a daughter of the Hapsbu ~gs-
his divorce from Josephine ma ks
the beginning of his downfall. Napol-
cons hopes were at the highest pi.ch
after tire battle ce Austerlitz, but they
were shattered at Waterloo. II was q
golden sunset glo y that emerged
awile before 1t vanished away.
The result of Nanoleon's work resem-
hles a gigantic elf vanishing In the
sea of time. The waves OF rep~oach
h eak against it: the lightning bolt or
hatred de~cends upon It's brow: the
cutting winds OF crit csm attack Ito
surfaces: the ambition to rise higher Is
chartered and 10! 9s the mist th'ckens.
the cliff vanishes from view. Napol-
! con is there in nemory only ard we
cas we'll unde. stand why Inge. sool
aid:
"A short tire ago I stood beside the
tomb Of Napoleon: a magn' icent struc
tu~e Of stone and marble. 7 leaned
owe the fallistry ard thoucht abou'
The career Of the greatest so'd'er OF tire
~ode~n zee. ] could Gee him az the
head OF the army of italy. I could see
rim putting down the mob in Paris. 7
could see him by the shadows Of the
pvram de. I could zee him escape from
Elba and retake a whole ennire b.
the marvellous 70 &c of his genius. ]
"ou'd zee him at Waterloo. where fac
and man combined to wreck the dest'.
ny of their forme kir-. I could see
him at st. Helena w tn his arms folded
across his bosom looking out upon the
sad and solmn sea and I thought or
all the widows ard Orphans he har
made, OF all the tears that had beer
she'd for his glory and I thought or
the woman-the only woman he ever
loved, pushed from his side by the cold
land of ambition ard ] sad to my
self, I'would rather De a T. ench peas
mt and wea wo den sh rs, to liz in /
nut, whe.e the vine cl .sters DER tn,
DOR, with my wife and child. en- cling.
lg to my neck than to be hat BIO d
poster that over. al Europe witt
loodshed during the eighteenth cen
NY"
Thus we have of Napoleon a memory
which could well be effaced from ou
iemory and that Of the whole world
With a shudde. we turn from the dalk
llcove al d a e met by the brightness
t ON the one across the hall and W,
are aga n influenced by Raphael.
Raphael was born in the little city
Of Urbino. AS a child of cherubie
.eauty he was often taken by his faith
er to visit the magnificent palace o.
he dupes, filled with cho. ce wo. ks OF
art. and there his mind may have DeeI.
awakened, but his father was his t. W.
,eacher. he was sent to be a pupil oi
re. ugino, the best master in colo
and techn que then living. With mod
est sympathy Raphael, while hi
genus developed .apidly, never seemed
to .ivai his master. but followed hin
him.
In nearly every work of Raphae.
the three strong intellectual tendencies
of the age wee iliusti ated-namly.
ne sought his PRINCIPLES of art tom
IGIeek antiquity and he d ew his i'm
mediate insp atoms from the di. &c,
study of nature.
Among his works his own portrait is
seen which is a magnificent compos. :
ton showing his Blown eyes full OF
thought. his light hair flowing to his
shoulders and h 8 face beautiful as ar.
angels. The vastness of design ana
variety of invention, the sincere petty
and delicate refinement n tne su :
passing technique exhibited in
Raphaers art and pictu. es are unsu :
passed. Tis Christ, Bearing H 8
Cross" in the Madr d Gallery. which
though greatly injured by restoration.
yet has Irvine pathos and never was
such a loftily spiritual conception o.
Christ, the suffere :, ever painted. The
last work OF his fe IA the Trans
fgu alton in which has genius reached
It's highest volume. In this picture he
gave an exact translation OF the words
of st. Matthews Gospel. The agoai-ins
griefs and bitter struggle of the lower
earth vanish away in the transcendent
hope and light OF the open ng heaven.
This masterpiece stood unfinished IN
his tudio. when he died in 1920 at the
age of th'rty-seven years. Raphaels
designs whose majesty and righteousness
with their elegance ard breadth of