The daily progressive-miner., 1919-03-11

ensves of last spring to have Gene rallissimo.
 Plotted Against Napoleon III.
 At 19 years of age, clemenceau went to Paris to study medicine. He was soon taking part in revolutionary plots against Napoleon Ill.,, and from a printing press concealed in his apart. ment he poured forth a stream of anti monarchicaI pamphlets. When he was 2t years old, he was caught and sent to Ms=os prison after which he came ', the United States. He went to the front during tte civil war as sort of war correspondent, and in an interview in France recently he said that he was the first civilian to enter Richmond after it's capture by Grant. He spent many days studying at the Astor H. brary in New York City.
 One of the treasures of the New York Public Library now is copy of Gle -menceau's thesis on anatomy, with the writer's signature or the titIe-pase. dated "New York, Oct, 1e, 1a67."
 He started to practice medicine In New York City, but could not make headway and through Friend Eugene Bushe he obtained employment as a teacher of literature with Miss Aiken proprietor of Miss Aiken's Seminary for young ladies at Stamford, Conn. While at this post he trasIated the works of John Stuart Mill into French and made painstaking researches in American political history. He learned to speak English like native, an ac. compIshment that proved great con venience for his intercourse with Pre- sident Wilson, who does not know French.
 Clemenceau fell in love with one of his pupils, Miss Mary E. Hummer, the daughter of doctor at Springfield, Mass. After her graduation he made a trip to France to get the onsent of his family, and then returned to this coun- try and married her. The marriage was performed in the New York City Hall by Mayor Oakley Hall on June 23,1s6e Twenty years later she divorced him. They lived in New York until the Fran co-Prussan war, when he returned to France. He was in Paris through the siege and became Mayor of the district of Montmartre. He took part in the overthrow of the monarchy.
 From that time forth his history forms a huge section of the history of French politics. He opposed the French Colonial adventures. He played a great part in discrediting 6oulanser and his mock-heroic movement. He advocated the separation of Church and State. As member of the Cham ber he became the most powerful in- dividua, in France until 1893, when the suspicion that he was involved in the exaggerated Panama scandals and his opposition to the Russian Alliance cut his popularity to pieces and led to his defeat for the Chamber, where he had served continuously since 1876. His personal honesty was vindicated, but this did not save him from politi- cal eclipse.
 He then devoted himself to journal ism, urging strong alliance with Eng land, in place o)f the Russian agree ment, which he opposed because he did not wish the republic to be linked with the backward autocracy. He was a powerful champion of Dreyfus during that long-drawn-out affair. hi 1906 he became Premier, and excited the enmity of the extreme labor eIe- ment because of the vigor which he displayed in using the military to quelI strike of miners in the Pas de Calais Department, and because of his break with the Socialist Party and attack on Jean Jaures, its leader. Dur ing 1907 and 1908 hls premiership was notable for cementing the En- tente with England and for the wig orous role of France in European poii-