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Show VOUNG NAPOLEON DESPONDENT. Had News Frm His Ilome Made tbe A tillerjTiian Talk of Suicide. Early in Angust, 1787, a little rebellion, rebel-lion, known as the "Two Cent Revolt," broke out in Lyons over an attempt to reassert an ancient feudal right concern Ing the sale of wine which had Ion $ been in abeyance. The neighboring garrisons gar-risons were ordered to furnish their ra gpective quotas for its Suppression. Bonaparte's company was sent among the others, but the disturbance was already al-ready quelled when he arrived, and tba month he spaa at Lyonswas so agree, able that, as he wrote his uncle Fesch, he left the city with regret "to follow his destiny." His regiment had been ordered northward to Douay, in Flanders, Flan-ders, and there he rejoined it about the diddle of October. The 6hort time he spent under the inclement in-clement skies of that frontier fortresj was a dreary one. Bad news came from home. Joseph had some time bciors turned his eyes toward Tuschy for a possible career. In order to test his chances of success at court, he had mad application for an empty decoration. The answer to his request had been a gracious permission to prove his Tuscan nationality, which was of course equivalent equiv-alent to a repulse. Utterly without sue- J cess in finding occupation in Corsica and hopeless as tc France, he was now about to make a final desperate effort and, decorated or not, to go in person to Florence and to seek employment of any kind which offered. Lucien, the arch deacon, was seriously ill, and General Marbeuf, the last influential friend of the family, was dead. Louis had been promised a scholarship in one of the royal artillery schools. Deprived of his patron, he would probably lose the appointment. ap-pointment. Finally the pecuniary affairs of Mme. 2e Bonaparte were again entangled and now appeared hopeless. She bad for gome time received a state bounty for Eilanting mulberry trees, as France was ntroducing silk culture into the island. The inspectors had condemned the year's work and were withholding the allowance. allow-ance. Her letter put an end for a time to all study, historical or political. Napoleon Na-poleon immediately applied, as his mother requested, for leave of absence, that he might instantly Be out to her relief. His request was refused. He sould obtain no leave until January. Despondent and anxious, he moped, grew miserable and contracted a slight malarial fever, which for the next sis or seven years never entirely relaxed its hold on him. The pages of his journal jour-nal for the ensuing weeks show how dispirited he was, and contain, among other things, a long, wild, pessimistic rhapsody, in which there is talk of suicide. sui-cide. The plaint is of the degeneracy among men, of the destruction of primitive prim-itive simplicity in Corsica by the French occupation, of hia own isolation and of hia yearning to 6ee his friends one more. Life is no longer worth while. Hia country gone, a patriot has naught to live for, specially when he has no pkas-ure pkas-ure and all is pain, when the ohvmo-ter ohvmo-ter of those about him is to his ot? n aft moonlight to sunlight. If ther?. wera but a single life in hia way, he vou!fd bury the avenging blade of his ooun'cry and her violated laws in the bosora of the tyrant. Some cf his complaining was even less coherent than this. It ia absurd to take the morbid catpyouring seriously, except in so far ati It goes to prove that its writer was it victim of the sentimental egoism into which the psychological studies of the eighteenth century had degenerated ad to suggest sug-gest that possibly if he had not been Napoleon he mifeht havi teen a Wer-ther. Wer-ther. Professor Sloane'ft "life of Napoleon" Napo-leon" in Centusy. Changing Colon of Glass. In lectariug.on the ruby at the .Royal Instituon, London, recently Professoi John W. Judd, the well known English geologist, alluded to the changes in color which certain kinds of glass undergo when exposed to light. The green glass panes in the conservatories at Kew gradually change through shades of yeL low to a purplish hue under the action of light Rubies change color in a curious cu-rious way under the action of heat. Bluish rubies turn green and on cooling regain their original tint. The blu apphire turns white, and the yellov arreadcxo crvsta) becomes preen. The Ladies. ' The pleasant effect snd perfect safety with which ladles, may use the California Califor-nia liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions, makes it their favorite remedy. To get the true and genuine article, look for the name of the California Fig Syrup Co., printed near the bottom of the package. |