Show HEART OP NAPOLEON ly IT WAS sympathetic AND GUIDED A POETIC NATURE he WM kind and lie arve side of the cicat character t not speaking of napoleons boyhood one who knowe whereof lio speaks says in his school days the grand hommo gave many indications of tho very qualities which procured for him tho did success which has brought him ovi cri asting fame his love of discipline order and power was shown by the i manner in which he controlled his schoolmates and constituted himself their leader teaching them the art of war in jimlo battles constructing forts and battlements of snow in tho play ground in which many a engado fought and won with snowballs for cannon balls and ice for shot it is recorded that ho undertook to reform the laxity of tho college rules and regulations by addressing a letter to the junior master indicating a system that would do away with the abuses and that ho applied these same rules afterward to the schools of fontainebleau taine bleau saint ayr and saint niacin according to a recent writer on one occasion ho was directing n perform tho tragedy of caesars death when the wife of the collego porter endeavored deavo red to force her way into the assembly on the strength of her position but napoleon made short work of her remove this woman ho cried who brings into our midst tho license of tho camp au order instantly obeyed by his colleagues much it duay bo sup posed to the discomfiture of tho good woman that napoleon was at libart a great poet hero cau bo no doubt mm ko anusak relates that he was a lover of ossian was fond of the twilight and melancholy nelan choly musia the murmur of the wind enraptured him and lio would dilate enthusiastically ou tho moaning of the sea and tho wild beauty of the tempest his powerful imagination sought to grasp tho unseen ho would sometimes amuse himself while passing the evening in draving room by telling or listening to ghost stories while the candles acro shaded and the present executed musio of a low sweet weird description to the accompaniment of stringed instruments doubtless this gift of a subtle imagination led napoleon to suspect where it was unnecessary and look for a motive in every action of those around him he believed all men liars until ho proved them otherwise he used to ro lato the story with great gusto that when lio was a child one of his predicted of him that ho would govern tho world ho wa an habitual of M do he once said ho approaches to being a statesman ho una so well I 1 Kapo loona life is an unending source of inspiration to bo painter david and n boat of his time have bequeathed to us of tho great battles and incidents of iris career on undying canvas to each picture is attached some interesting story during the italian campaign napoleon one night ing the battlefield of bassano illumined the sad scene of carnage no bound di tho deep save tho f coble groans of the dying of tho wounded suddenly a dog crept forward from a dead body ocar which ho was keeping watch the poor vanual retreated to his lifeless master and then again as though reluctant to abandon his efforts of reviving him yet desirous of avenging his death napoleon wan deeply touched by the faithful friendship of the animal who would not forsake his master like his human friends what a lesson for mani cried napoleon as he gazed on the pathetic spectacle so strong was the impression made on his mind by hat midnight episode of the battlefield that after 25 years bo related it when banished to the rock of st helena another instance of his real tender miss for the suffering and oppressed was during his egyptian campaign A poor had been murdered by a of who had entered with au armed band iota a village and driven off the herds ES apoleon immediately commanded hat a company of dromedaries and horsemen should go in pursuit of the guilty party one of the sheiks sur at abo indignation of the emmor or observed that it would not be wise for him to embroil himself with tho arabs a dangerous people for the sake tot a miserable fellah was he then thy cousin queried abo sheik more than that cried napoleon with vo pie menco all choso whom I 1 command my children 1 t again at the plague of jaffa napo the hospital and endeavored 81 to tho poor dying soldiers groa has to convey an idea of this in his great painting of the plague of jaffa wherein ho represents coa touching lie eruption of a soldier afflicted with the disease an act prompted by his desire to in epiro courage in those not afflicted as well aa to his sympathy pathy with aho sufferings Buffe rings of his poor soldiers ex hango |