The Washington herald., 1914-03-22


July Is IsOl-Concordat With Rome-he Catholic re-
hgion restored in France.
April L. lsoc-Napoleon attended Easter services at
the Cathedral Of Notre Dame.
March S. IsO3-The Code Napoleon decreed
TT NAPOLEON never had fought a
battle. he would yet stand forth
as one OF the worlds greatest
statesmen. Where. indeed, shall We
look for his peer in statecraft?
Laying aside his sword after the
battle of Marengo, in the early sum-
mer of 1900, he won in four years OF
peace victories which deserve to be
no less renowned than those Of war,
and which were far more enduring.
Entering upon the consulate in the
true spirit of q patriot and servant
of the people, the greatness and glory
of his country were his ruling pas
sion. Ma Belle France" as he fondly
called her, was his mistress.
He would rather toll for the nation
than sleep or eat. Il work all the
time" he said to the sluggards. at
dinner and at the theater. He could
work eighteen hours without resting
Generally men are grown old and
stale by the time they attain to pow
err 1t was this mans fortune while
vet in the full flush of youthful en-
thusiasm to find himself the ruler OF
France. He held his councillors to
their tasks from to ), with only
fifteen minutes intermission for eat
ing and again from 10 at night until
in the morning Come, come, ne
.hided his exhausted helpers Tar IN
the night. "let us bestir ourselves. IL
is only > o'clock, and we must earn
the money the French people pay
rs" II Bourriennc stole away to the
theater he had TO come back at 10
lake UP the days duties again.
Corvisart protested, but he laughed
at the doctors warning and said: Il
must use the night to keep my shop
going. as the day is insufficient.
should certainly like more rest, but
the OK is harnessed and he must plow.
No Time to Dress or Eat.
He did not take time properly to m-
Iress for bed. but tore off his clothes
and flung them about the room, nat
watch and ALL He did not stop even to
no shaved but talked. read papers and
xept on the move while under the razor
If Constant. his valet. He held audi
.nces while in the bathtub.
His servants had to go into conference
md agree upon measures for getting MN
correctly dressed for state occasions. lie
-efused to pause for sittinSs to the great
-anova, whom he had summoned from
v,
lin while he lunched-
And he would not spare the time TO
.at A glass of hot water, in which ne
uueezed a lemon. sufficed for his break
asst The table bored him, and his cher,
never knowing when he would yield to
he need of nourishment, kept his luncheon
,eady and waiting for him hour after
hour, replacing the food in the oven as
asst as il was cooked with a new supply. |
af Ia q chose
# nine or ten dishes and ignored the rest |
Ie hardly knew what he ate.
Often when he had stayed only ten |
minutes. even at dinner, he pushed his !
hair back and left the family and his /
:uests at the table. Once when some |
hing troubled him. instead of springing !
ID from the table as usual, he hurled II |
rway from him, upsetting the dishes on |
he floor.
When he wrote he did not take time to !
or1n the letters, but left half of them !
nut of the longer words. He writes like /
. cat scratches holes in a sheet of paper"
,is brother Joseph said. His thoughts |
nltraced his quill. which he wiped on his /
white breeches, necessitating a fresh pair
very morning. He insisted that "a man
occupied with public business cannot
ractice orthography. His ideas must
low faster than his hand can trace"
His dictation poured forth in torrent,
ghich brooked no interference and could
yot be turned hack for the repetition
( sentence or a word. There was
,et no shorthand system, and to keep up
7ith him his scribes had to invent one
4 their own. While he dictated he strobe
ID and down the room like a Gagged lion.
he sat down his tireless hand hacked
4 the arm Of his chair with a PEN
-nife or he dangled his legs from his
ecretary's table and rocked il SO hard
he poor man had-still greater difficulty
n making his notes.
Capacity for Work.
The infinite range of his interests and
he tremendous display of his energies
tagger the imagination, and surpassed
uman capacity" in the words Of Taine, /
is severest critic in literature, while
Emerson has said that his achievement
I business was immense and enlarges the
nown powers Of man"
His ministers. overwhelmed by his in
tructions and pumped dry by his ques-
loning, went from the Tuileries to their
Hices only to find on their desks
oxen more written inquiries from MIN.
.avaIIettc said that ''he governed more I
a three years than Kings in 100 years"
He boasted that he took more pleasure
n reading official reports than any
'oung girl does in q novel," He got up
( in the morning to study army re-
'orts while stretched on his sofa before
he fire--and detected twenty mistakes IN 4
hem.
Mechanics of His Mind.
His own explanation OF the mechanics
his mind is rs good as it is familiar: Il
Various subjects and affairs are slowed