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sxchags for city property.
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Poverty His Teacher

Poverty was one of Napoleons best
teachers in those days, when he pulled
In his belt at, mealtime and Toasted on
Rousseau, Voltafre and other nourish-
ers of his mind. When he ate a real
meal. which generally was only once a
day. he walked along this Grande Rue
into the Place des Clercs, and thence
turned into the little Rue Perollerie.
There. where / saw two aged DANES in
a toothless chatter, he used to dine at
the Three Pigeons restaurant, with one
eye on the bill of fare and the other
on the few cents to which he limited
his appetite.
He remained as unattractive in APP
pearance as he had been from birth,
with a presence almost uncanny. Visit
ing a Corsican in a nearby town, the
earliest existing portrait of him was
drawn by his young host. 1t is crude
piece of art. but it serves as evidence
of his uncomely youth.
The only social life he could afford was
the simplest, which is always the best.
He brought letter from the Archbishop
of Autun, nephew OF his old benefactor,
Count Marbeuf, the French governor of
Corsica, introducing him to the able of
ST Ruff at the old abbaye, now the pre-
lecture for the department of the Drone,
down-~near the foot of the Grande Rue.
The able was a man in touch With the
progress of thought and the Able Raynal,
whom the boy officer also came to know
there, ranked at the time among the fore
most philosophers of France.
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COrsica's Remembrance

Corsica never has ceased to repent
her Punishment of Napoleon or wearied
in bringing forth works meet for re-
pentance. Long ago she unanimously
ratified his choice of nationality and is
today as French as France
The Ajaccians indeed are still voting
for Napoleon. The island as a whole
may have been more or less won over
TO the republic. At least candidates
bearing the republican label are elected
to sit in the Chamber of Deputies Mt
Paris, although some of them never
overcome the suspicion of the ministry
that they are Bonapartists in Disguise
But Ajaccio does not stoop to dissem-
hle. She is Bonapartist first, last and
all the time. An Ajaccian returns from
a pilgrimage to Prince Victor at Brus-
the glasses elink at the Cafe Napoleon
on the Cours Napoleon 10 the health
and success of the pretender to the
throne of the Bonapartes. Every man
in the street seems to be saying to the
passing stranger. Behold | am of the
Napoleon breed, and Napoleon was
nothing more than corsican who had
a fair chance in the world"
Next Sunday-"The Man on Horse
bacl1'-Mr. Morgan follows THE Path OF
Napoleon" from Toulon to Paris.
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airy government and engaged in a footless
expedition organized to capture Ajaccio
from the Paolsts. Desp1iring of the sue
cess of this movement ne sent courier
to warn his mother. Prepare yourself"
he wrote; this country is not for us."
Letza was lying dressed on "a couch
in the Bonaparte house one evening when
the courier and a band of faithful follow
ers burst in upon her. AS she sprang up
she feared she was in the hands of the
Paolists, but by the light of their pine
torches she recognized the rough but
friendly mountaineers who had come to
save her. BE quick, Signora Letizia"
cried the leader. "Paoli's people are hard
at our heels. There is not a moment to
lose. We will save you or die with you!'
With the Able Fesch. her son Louis and
her daughters Elisa and Pauline she fled
along the shore. having been obliged to
leave behind two of her children, Caro-
line and Jerome, who We're too young to
endure the hardships of such a Journey
Before morning the Pa9lists had broken
into the homestead In the Rue st. Charles
and by smashing and burning they laid
waste the interior of the hoiise.
Plainly the fortunes of the Bonapartes
were at an end In the island. They had
been driven from their home and de-
nounced by formal resolution: 1T is be-
meath the dignity of the Corsican people
to trouble themselves about the families
% Arena and Bonaparte; they abandon
them to their own private remorse and to
public opinion which has already con-
demned them to perpetual execration and
infamy."
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A Sin to Waste Ii

From Pearsons Weekly.
A returned holiday maker is telling this
story in connection with the recent
drought in Norfolk.
During a cycle ride In country dis
trict in Norfolk he ha6 the misfortune to
have one of his tyres punctured Having
failed to find the puncture he went to
a neighboring inn and asked for a pail
of water to help him in finding II.
I'm very sorry. SIR" replied the inn
keeper. but water is so scarce here
abouts that 1 can't spare any
But must get some water" protested
the cyclist. Cant you let me have a
jug full?''
The inn keeper shook his head
EVERY drop of water in the house." he
said, has had to be carried over a mile,
and it's far too precious to waste"
well, L must get some sort OF LIQUID
to put the tyre in" said the cyclist des-
perately. I'm have to get some beer and
hold the frye in that
The conversation which had taken platA
I'm the doorway of the Inn. was here IN
terrupted by an agonized voice from
the bar parlor.
For 'eavens sake. guy nor" a coun-
tryman impored the cyclist, don't waste
beer for that. I'll fetch the water if
youll give me the beerl"
The bargain was struck, the country
man set off ON his long tramp with a
bucket. and. having returned with It filled
with water, he drank his reward OF beer
with great and obvious satisfaction.
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and the gaunt shade of the second lieu
tenant haunts the old place to this day.
We may see him with covetous eyes still
bending over the book stalls and calcu-
lating how many weeks he must wait to
save enough money out of his 81 of spare
money each month to buy some work
which he longed to carry to his lonely
den across the street.
Those were the brave and ingenious
days, as he afterward confessed, when
he would have died to uphold the social
doctrines of Jean Jacques Rousseau and
when he read Goethe's "Werther" five
times. while he lived these mournful lines
in wilhelm Meister:''
Who never ate his bread In sorrow,
Who never spent the darksome hours
Weeping and watching for the morrow
He knows ye not, we gloomy Powers
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The First Exile

Here on this rock of Calvi the prescribed
Bonapartes gathered under friendly
roof and watched for an opportunity to es-
cape from their native land. AS Calyi
was their last refuge in Corsica, SO it
became the last refuge of all who resisted
the transfer of the island to England.
When 1 climbed up from the harbor, cum
ningly hid in the mountains. to the old
town, a civic mummy sealed In its two
or three castings of stony battlements, L
found Calvis two proudest boasts in
scribed ON its time SCARED and bullet rid
died walls. The first is engraved above
it's gate Always Faithful" while the
second is carved on heap of ruins within
the town:
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James Morgan, the first biographer
OF Napoleon to traverse the vast the
atre of his exploits, had to visit many
unfrequented places in following "The
Path OF Napoleon" A third Of the
time he was in communities where
foreigners are seldom seen, and where
not word of English is TO be heard.
Naturally the appearance ola strange
traveller from PARKWAY America some-
times excited suspicion in this year of
strained international relations in the
old world, and twice Mr.. Morgan was
arrested as spy. His unusual and
often amusing experiences as a trav-
eler will form part of the back
ground of his unique narrative of "a
Journey of 10000 Miles in the Path
of Napoleon
Each chapter is story in itself.
Begin today to read this simplest of
biographies and greatest of romances.
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Dreaming of Suicide

In his first springtime at Valence, while
the cherries were red on Nine. Colon
bier's trees, Napoleon, already gloomy
and peculiar, but yet far from grand,
sat down In his bare room at No. IS and
thus poured forth upon the pages of his
diary the bitterness of his soul:
always alone when in the midst Of
men, | return to my room to dream by
myself and to give myself up to the full
tide of my melancholy. What, forsooth,
am l here for in this world? Since death
must come to me, why would it not be as
we'll to kill myself? Since l begin
life in suffering misfortune, and moth
ing gives me pleasure, why should I en-
dure these days when nothing with which
l am concerned prospers?"
Nevertheless he did not jump into the
Rhone. On the contrary, he went on
reading, reading, writing, writing, study
ing, studying, tracing out the institutions
of all ages and lands and training his
mind for the hidden future. If he had
rea his destiny in the book of fate he
could not have chosen a better mental
preparation for it.
1908
than a year, he received leave of alb
sence and went home, taking two trunks,
the larger one filed with books. After
having been away nearly eight years, he
returned Corsican of the Corsicans, but
to find the fortunes of his family at low
ebb, his mother without servant and
much of the time her own laundress and
seamstress
He did not rejoin his regiment until he
months. 1t was now at Auxonne, much
farther north and between Dillon and the
Swiss frontier, where his one diversion
from the irksome regimental routine and
his Calling poverty was again afforded by
his unfailing friends, his books and his
pen.
The less he had and the less he ate,
the more he read and wrote, the harder
he worked. Going to bed at 10, he was
up by and at his Uttered table. The
half-fed genius was in a frenzy of literary
composition, turning off nearly 80 papers
on as many different subjects, only to be
rebuffed by the publishers of three cities.
He wrote not only historical and philoso-
phical essays, but also novels and plays.
among them 1.-THE Count of Essex but
none ever reached the triumph of the
types.
Then the Bastile fell. The great rev.
olution was on and. spreading like a
prairie fire, it was at Auxonne in five
days, taking the form of riot. The
stirring events aroused Napoleon from
Il H.. i Il xe,A
part in the new era of action. But not
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In the Streets of Paris

III viz obACCtS VI i aAto
In his absorbing ambition to lead the
Corsican national guard Napoleon had
ignored the preemptory order for all
army officers to return to their posts
and ignored as well the peril of the ma
ton exposed to foreign invasion.
"Bonaparte, first lieutenant, has
given up his profession and been re-
placed on February 6, 1872" so ran the
records of his regiment
Going to Paris to recover his aban-
doned place in the army. he entered
the capital, out of job and a man
without country. But his coming
was we'll timed for his further educa-
ton. For he saw Paris in the midst OF
the painful travail that attended the
birth of the first republic.
Falling in with Bourreienne, his old
chum at Brienne, they shared their
poverty, but Bourrienne has insisted
that Napoleon was the poorer and had
to pawn his watch. With the rising
tide of the revolution already up to
their ankles, this we'll met pair were
so little stirred that they could coolly
discuss over their 6-cent dinners. which
bOuTTienHe SdyS no SSHSIdlly pau lO. ,
the opening of a real estate agency and
prosaic business partnership.
One day In the Rue des Petit Champs
Napoleon met "a crowd of hideous
men," according to his description,
bearing aloft a human head on a pike.
They demanded that he cry viva la
Nation" and he has assured us. 81 did
it without difficulty. as you may be-
1ieve." The young disciple of Rousseau
was being introduced at close range 10
the terrible realities Of the revolution
which to him had been only an ideal
He and Bourrienne followed the moi
in its first attack on the Tuileries and
viewed from the terraced bank OF the
Seine, a riotous assemblage swarming in
the palace. chopping it's way through the
doors with hatchets and compelling the
King to put on the red cap of liberty.
Bourrienne reports his companion in
dignantly shouting, why have they let
in ali that rabble? They should SWEEP
off 400 or 500 of them with the cannon;
the rest of them would then set off fast
enough" In a letter to his brother Joseph,
he solemnly commented ON the occur
renee, "all this is unconstitutional and
sets very dangerous example; 1t is diff
cult to see what will become of the EN-
pire under these stormy circumstances.
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ON Pearson's Weekly.

From Pearson's Weekly.
The kind old lady noticed a small lad
entering cobblers shop with a small
package.
What have you there, sonny" she
asked kindly.
Mas slipper" replied the lad; you
see, there is tack out of place in It,
and want to have IT fixed before ma
notices It."
"Ah, what considerable little boy.
suppose you are afraid the tack might
hurt your mothers foot?
well. 1t isn't exactly that. You see.
the tack is sticking out on tho sole, and
this is the slipper ma spanks me with"
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His First Girl

At the abbaye, too, this youth of 16, who
had left home at and been brought up in
a monastery, formed an acquaintance with
a hitherto unknown species of the human
race, girl, Mile. Colombier, and the
shadow of this little French lass was
caught for all time on the films IN tie
moving picture of Napoleon's lie. Her
mother invited him oft, and While he SAID
afterward that he was in love with made
haoiselle we have no other detail of their
Rrief romance than that they picked ana
ate cherries together in her orchard.
But woman's looks never we're to be
Napoleon's books The Maison des Tetcs
stood opposite Mile. Bous lodging honse
and the hoary heads sculptured on It's
front still grin and glover on the way
farer by the Grande Rue. There used to
be q bookseller in this house Of the heads,
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f: Here was born Christopher Col
(: umbus, immorta1ized by the dis
(: covery of the New World. when
+: Calvi was under the domination
: of Genoa. Died at yalladolid.
: goth of May. 1900.

While it would seem to be only fair
that a man who has two graves should
have two birthplaces. Calvi has not
established this latter boast to the sat
isfaction of history. but 1t made good
Its other boast before 1t surrendered to
the English ships in 1874. For 1t held
out until $4,000 bullets. $500 bombs and
1900 shells had rained upon 1t. and 1t
looks today as IL 1t had as many scars
as shat to show for the long siege. Be-
sides Horatio Nelson paid an eye--the
historic eye, which afterward won the
battle OF Copenhagen-for his part in
the subjugation of this stubborn old
town.
The British frigates were already
gathering off Calvi when the prov of
little boat. with Its cargo Of future
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The Youth of Napoleon
by HIMSELF

it?
breada
longer be
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friends And tho books!
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When,b of 1
a bookseller lived
the oy
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sovereigns and princes cut The Path
of Napoleon" through these waters on
his first exile and bore him from this
mountainous shore to his destiny
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AT the Stacking of the Palace

When the palace was sacked, later in
the summer. Bourrienne was gone from
Paris, but his friend was lettering in the
streets as usual and was caught up the
swirling tumult There were shops in
those days between the Louvre and the
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in Auxonne, nor in Paris, nor anywhere
in France. No, he must hasten to the
one object of his thoughts, Corsica.
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Tuileries, where Napoleor's Arch of the
Caroussel now stands and Bourriennes
brother kept one of them. Thither Ma
poleon FASTENED to watch the storming
of the palace, the fight OF the royal
family to the National assembly in the
tennis court, whose site is occupied in
our day by the Hotel Continental. and
there he saw the deadly battle between
the people and the Swiss guard.
While in Paris Napoleon not only sue
ceeded in having his name restored to
the army lists but also received promo
ton to capitancy and obtained besides
$500 in back pay, covering the time no
had been absent without leave. The
new captain wrote to Joseph that, al
though he would rather be in Corsica,
probably whatever turn events may take
/ shall find myself established in France
Yet, with the Germans on French soil
and Paris passing into the dark shadows
of the Reign of Terror, he begged an :
other leave and returned once more to
the little island out of the world He
had now been in the army seven years,
and absent from duty more than half
the time.
In the course of the following winter
in Corsica, he took part for the first time
in military campaign as commander of
the artillery In an expedition designed to
carry the revolution into the nefghboring
island of Sardinia. In the long period of
preparation he was at Bonifacio. one Of
the most wierdly picturesque ports in all
the Path of Napoleon" and he lodged
opposite the old house In which Charles "
stayed more than two centuries before
The expedition resulted in a fiasco, and
the Bonapartists. accusing Paoli of desir-
ing the failure of the campaign, the
breach between the young Corsican and
the old grew wider still.
A Frenchman at Last
While both were fervent Corsicans, one
had received his political training in Eng
land and the other in France. AS the
revolution developed. Paoli was steadily
driven back upon the English moderation
which he had acquired in his exile among
a people who always believe in going
ahead slowly. In the veins of the younger
man the warm blood of Italy coursed I'M
tanned. He was still Italian and some
thing more intense than that. a Corsican,
and not yet the calculating man of the
great world.
When early in 1898 war was declared
between France and England. Corsicans
had to choose between the French who
held the forts and the British whose war
ships lay at the harbor mouths ready
to seize the island. Turning with a shud-
der from France under the Terror, Paoi
naturally looked to his English friends
and welcomed an English protectorate.
Napoleon, on the other hand chose a
last.
After various adventures he joined the
representatives of the French revolution
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country house, the most conspicuous
structure that greeted my eye from the
mountain side as I sailed into the Bay
of Aiaccio.
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THE DARKNESS
BEFORE THE DAWN
Dates for This Chapter


Sub lieutenant. Valence, October 80,
1885.
On leave in Corsica. September Is,
1885,
Rejoins regiment. Auxonne, June Is,
1888.
Fall of Bastile. July IA, 1883,
On leave in Corsica. August 81, 1888.
Returns to regiment, January 1871.
First lieutenant. Valence, June l, 1871.
On leave in Corsica, September. 1871.
Dropped from army. February 6. 1892.
Lieutenant colonel Corsican guard,
March 81, 17a2
Arrives in PARIS, May 2S, 1892.
Tuileries attacked. June 20, 1892.
Restored to army. July 10. 1892.
Tuileries sacked, August 10, 1892.
Appointed captain, August 80 1892.
Returns to Corsica, September, 1892.
Sandman expedition, January, 1898.
Family denounced. May 20, 1898.
Flight from Calvi, June 10. 1898.
Calvi. Corsica.
A FTER leaving "The Path of Ma
"A po1eon" at the Ecole militaire
of Paris, 1 next picked 1t up al
valence, whittier he came on borrowed
money to join his regiment. and where
his real education was to begin, with
himself as his teacher.
| found Valence nearly 400 miles south
of Paris on the railroad and high road
10 Marseilles and the Riviera. 1t is
IN attractive old town of almost 10000
population. close to the upper border
Of toI aI,o
the banks of the river Rhone, between
Lyons and Avignon, it looks across
vine grown plain to the Alpine foot
hills of Dauphiny on one side and the
gentle mountains of Cevennes on the
other
1t is but step from the new to old
va1ence, where the little streets twist
and turn and tumble down to the wide.
swift river In the center of 1t stands
the cathedral. There 1 turned into the
winding Grande Rue and was in The
Path of Napoleon l was looking for
No AS, which with much neighborly
assistance | found at the corner of the
still moreover Rue Croissant. There
stands a shockingly modern four-story
business block without an identifying
front. Yet here the eaglet perched for
awhile and gave Valence its admission
ticket to the pages of history.
Apparently the present tenants were
unconscious of the reflected glory in
which they dwelt. 1t was somewhat
distracting, you may imagine, for me to
stand there under their puzzled stares
and recall to memory the days of 1885,
6. when a melancholy STRIPPING came
and went in this winding lane of
Grande Rue. For at No. AS, Mile Bou,
spinster who kept house for her old
father, lodged Second Lieutenant Bona
parte at somewhat less than So a
month. As sub or second lieutenant of
the regiment of La Frere, his monthly
income was $40, which safter all de-
auctions, left him 81 for clothes and
extras.