The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-04-06

mind is the power that moldS anC
makes. Napoleon was mind and even more
he took the tool of thought and, shaping
what he willed, brought forth thousand
'oys, thousand ills. He thought in secret
but it came to pass-and SO, environment
was but his looking glass.
In this material life mans success Oh
failure is in proportion to his progress along
one of three paths: FIN ANCE, STATES
MANSHlP and MILITARY.
The man who, shrewd, skillful and cal
culating, is able to foresee and prepare fol
| the varying changes of "SUPPLY and DE
MAND"-in a manner superior to his fell
low men-to that man is given the respect
due unusual mentality and into his Golfers
is paid financial toll by all with whom he
comes in contact.
At rare intervals you will find a man
whose mastery understanding of mankind,
by the study of man, is of such prePond-
Grating character that while at first he pits
the mind of one against the reason of an
othet, soon the power is of such magnitude
that International relationship is but as a
chess board, and the nations of the earth
but his pawns.
A boy dreams of martial glory and in the
seeming thoughtlessness of youth spends
his playtime hours in the study of wars and
the ingredient parts thereof, but while SO
doing he generates within himself the I'M
dying spark that will burst into fame at his
nations call. The years pass, and when
his country's life is but the prize of invad-
ing forces, then do the youthful hours of
this mans concentrated study bear fruit,
and his wonderful understanding of "ARMs
and MEN, is the means of his lands saliva
ton. The more deeply you delve into the
history of bygone ages, the more rigidly
you investigate International records, the
more authentic you will find this one fact
there has been but one man, who, as a
Tri-unity, stands SO far peer to all other
mortal men that he can be spoken of in but
one way: he was the material ideal of Ar-
anism.
Germany bows her head at the name of
Bismarck: England glories in her Cromwell:
America reveres the illustrious Washington,
but the whole civilized world, divided by
tongue, creed and heritage is united In pay
ing justly-due homage to the memory of
that man whose name will always stand
Supreme as the personihcation of all earthly
glories, that immortal Italian, Napoleon
Bonaparte the great and heroic Little
Corporal"
Upon sultry day in 1869, in crude
hovel, amid poverty's surrounding, on the
then barren Isle of Corsica, there was born
of parents "to future and to fame unknown"
the babe whose life would fill more pages
of secular history than any other name OF
series of names to mankind known. Corsica
was at this time struggling for existence
against the encroaching power of Monar-
chial France and so Napoleon's childhood
was spent on the shores of perishing
country. amid the cries of the oppressed,
the groans of the downtrodden and the
agonies of despair. While but boy of
ten he was placed by the French Governor
of Corsica in the Military Academy at
Brienne, and here for five years, silent,
taciturn, friendless and almost Ching
apart he studied not only the prescribed
ritual of military maps and fortress plans,
but, with astounding precociousness, his
mind was being made the storehouse of
law, philosophy, and the arts of Govern
ment that in the coming years would bring
all Europe to his feet. At fifteen, from
Brienne to the higher military engineering
school at Paris, and after but one year of
Commemorative and absorptive study, he is
sent as a sub-lieutenant of artillery to the
frontier rost at La Fere. The tragic days
of the French Revolution are now at hand,
and they in turn give way to the Directo-
rate OF Five. Austria, thinking France
helpless because of internal strife, starts in
vasion with large army by way of Italy.
Now follow Napoleon into Italy, where, at
the age of twenty one, he is given supreme
command of the French army to resist the
invading hordes. Watch him now put into
motion his preconceived and matured plans
of war in so br illiant an d resistles S
a manner that soon with but small force
he puts Imperial Austria to route and its
Sovereign gladly signs humiliating peace.
This war was the first occasion that
brought the people of all France into a
grateful recognition of their preserver and
the ''Little Corporal became the idol of
the French army. He was ever with them
and part of them: each night he spent in
arranging details for the coming day, and
and then gave mind and BODY to their en-
actment. While Napoleon is battling for
his country's life, the Directorate at Paris,
instead of advancing the interests of the