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Show YOUNG NAPOLEON DESPONDENT. fUd Ifewg Im His Home Made tbe Artillery Ar-tillery ns an Talk of Suicide. Early in August, 1787, a little rebellion, rebel-lion, known as the "Two Cent Eevolt," tirokeout in Lyons over an attempt to reassert an ancient feudal right concern Ing the sale of wine which had Ion oeeu in abeyance. The neighboring garrisons gar-risons were ordered to furnish their ra-ipective ra-ipective quotas for its Suppression, Bonaparte's company was sent amonj the others, but the disturbance was already al-ready quelled when lie arrived, and the month, he spent at Lyons was so agreeable agree-able that, as he wrote his uncle Ftsch, 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 cl October. The short time be spent under the in-element in-element skies of that frontier fortresi was a dreary one. Bad news came from home, Joseph had Eome time bcrore turned his eyes toward Tuscany for a possible career. In order to test his chances of success at court, he had made 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 success suc-cess in finding occupation in Corsica and hopeless as tc France, he was now about to make a final desperate efforts and, deoorated or not, to go in person to Florence and to seek employment of any kind which offered. Lucien, the archdeacon, arch-deacon, was seriously ill, and General Marbeuf, the last influential friend of the family, was dead. Louis had boen promised a scholarship in one of the royal artillery Bchools. Deprived of hit patron, he would probably lose the ap pointment. Finally the pecuniary affairs of Mme. la Bonaparte were again entangled and now appeared hopeless. She had for some time received a state bounty for planting mulberry trees, as France was Introducing silk culture into the island, The inspectors had condemned the year's OTvi-v .mi tooth nH thholrlintr the allow ance. Her letter put an end for a time to all study, historical or political. Napoleon Na-poleon immediately applied, as hia mother requested, for leave of absence, that he might instantly se 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 6how 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 his own isolation and of his yearning to Eee his friends onoe more. Life is no longer worth while. His country gone, a patriot has naught to live for, specially when he has no pleasure pleas-ure and all is pain, when the character charac-ter of those about him is to his of n as moonlight to sunlight If there, were but a single life in hi3 way, he rou'd bury the avenging blade of his oouncry and her violated laws in the bosora of the tyrant. Some of his complaining was even less coherent than this. It is senously, except in so iar art H goes to prove that its writer was n victim of the sentimental egoism into which the psychological studies of the eighteenth sentury had degenerated and to suggest sug-gest that, possib.'y if he naci not been Napoleon ho might hav teen a Wer-ther. Wer-ther. Professo Sloane'ft "life of Napoleon" Napo-leon" in Centm.v- |