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THE GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. ®Vol. 1G, Ho. is-Entered &t .the Postofficeaa eeond-class mall matter.

GREENFIELD is winding up another school year and still the American flag is not floating over the heads of the children to teach them patriotism and inspire in their minds lofty 'ideas and ennobling thoughts. The American flag should float over every school house in America big and little. Let Greenfield get in the procession.

THE Muucie Bridge company that so long held sway on this county now has a decided swing in Hamilton countj. Within a comparatively "short time the commissioners of that county have issued thirteen orders to the Muncie Bridge Co. amounting all together to $29,-19-1.G4. It does look a little strange that the people of an average county pay aunnally about $250,000 in the way of taxes. Where does all the money go to!- Can not a halt be called.

CINCINNATI Commercial-Gazette: In discussing tne President's late financial letter, the Washington News asks: "what will Indiana do?" An easy conundrum. The Indiana Democrats will do as they always have done, resolute one way and vote another, but scramble fo^the offices all the time/ In the^creed ofjtheIndiana

Democracy there are many resolutions but only one article. The Arkansas father told his son t® get money honestly if he could, but get money. Transpose money into office, and you have the whole creed of the Indiana Democracy.

ThEKE

Monday May Sth.

It is confidently expected that Monday, May Sth, will be a day long to be remembered among the Odd Fellows of Rush county. It will be the occasion of the district meeting of the order to be held in this city. It is intended to be one of the greatest affairs of its kind- ever held here. Visiting Odd Fellows will be present from neighboring counties. Officers from the Grand Lodge will also be present and uniformed cantons from different parts of the State. A grand parade of all the lodges in attendance will be made and after it is over a public drill of the cantons will be given at the corner of Main and Ruth streets. The famous SSlwood canton, which has taken so many prizes, will .be present. The town will be thrown open to the visitors. The Melodeon and K. of P. halls, together with many of the churches will be placed at their disposal. The financial part looks encouraging and there is «no reason why -the Rushville Odd Fellows should not cover themselves with glory in the entertainment of their visitors.

Examination for Cadets.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., April 25.—Congressman C. L. Henry has appointed Dr. H. E. Jones, of this city Prof. G. W. Hufford of.the Indianapolis schools, and Prof. George S. Wilson, of Greenfield, as the board to conduct the competitive examination which will decide the appointment of military and naval cadets. The date has been named as the 18th day of May in the High School building in this city. There are forty applicants. The young men who get the coveted appointments are sure of a fine education at Uncle Sam's expense if they have the ability to {stick after they get into West Point or Annapolis. Thousands of bright young men have not been able to stand the thorough sifting on gets at these schools.

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W. S. MONTGOMERY, Publisher and Proprietor.

Circulation This Week, 2,700.

has been a very large number of

cases of measles in Greenfield this spring. Infact about every one who was eligible, that is, those who had not .£ had them, had them this year. This was brought about largely because people did not obey the quarantine law. In families where children had the measles other were allowed to attend school and were kept there uutil-they themselves had the measles and had exposed others to the disease and these exposed children continued in school not knowing they were going to have the measles until they also had the disease and had exposed others. This process was continued until about all the children have had the disease. Now the principle of sending hildren to school who have been expcs3d to a contageous or an infectious disease is wrong and is according to the guarantee laws unlawful. In the ca?e of measles this year no great harm was done as they were in a mild form and no serious results have happened. People, however, are liable if allowed to break over the rule in one instance are liable to do it in another, and in cases of diphtheria or scarlet fever more disastrous results would likely follow. Laws should always be obeyed and if the law is bad repeal it. Do not send your children to school when they possibly may be the cause of another child having a disease that may cause^its death. Odd Fellows District Meeting At Kusliville

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A BLOW TO FREEDOM

Cuban Insurgents Defeated With Great Loss of Life.

SEVERAL BATTLES ARE FOUGHT.

General Maceo's Baud Dispersed and Are Now Seeking Kefuge in the Mountains. Garza's Band Has Also Been Routed.

Steamer Advices Bifl'er From Those Sent Out From Havana. HAVANA, April 30.—The government

troops, under General Salcedo, have won a great victory over the insurgent forces, commanded by General Maceo. Many of the latter were killed or wounded, and the rest were dispersed and are seeking refuge in the mountains. In addition Garza's band has been completely routed with great loss in killed, wounded and prisoners. Nearly all the remainder of his band surrendered.

A detachment of government troops in Santa Cruz del Sur has dispersed the rebel band led by Montego. The insurgents left three dead behind them in their flight.

The troops under the command ot General Salcedo are still in close pursuit of the survivors of Maceo's band of rebels. The rebels refuse to give battle to their pursuers, and it is thought that they are completely demoralized by the defeat inflicted on them by General Salcedos. A detachment of the fleeing band was overtaken and surprised at Arroyo Hondo. They made a feeble attempt- at resistance,but were put to flight. Nine of them were killed and many wounded. The troops lost two killed and live wounded.

The military governor of Puerto Principe reports that Lieutenant Colonel Salamanca has routed at Ciego Avila the rebel band led by Castillo. 5 All the orders given by Captain General Canipos since he assumed command in Cuba would lead the ordinary observer to believe that there has been great laxity in the administration of the war department by General Calleja, the captain general whom he superceded, and who is now on his way back to Spain. Even the sanitary service^ so essential in time of war, seems to have suffered greatly from neglect. The national interests were also apparently neglected in other directions. It is believed that Campos will discern that the rebellion could have been prevented if proper precautions had been taken in time.

STEAMER ADVICES.

They Differ Somewhat From Those Sent Out From Havana. TAMPA, Fla., April 30.—Cuban ad

vices are that a married woman and her paramour murdered her husband at Canipecliula, secreting the body in a closet. They fled to the insurgent camp, where General Maceo instructed Captain Vega to arrest the murderers and deliver them to the Spanish authorities. Four men were detailed to deliver them at Canipecliula, in the province of Manzanillo. Two Cuban soldiers, who outraged the woman, were promptly courtniartialod and afterward hung.

Captain Castillo of the Cuban forces is under arrest for having allowed his soldiers in attacking a town to commit some depredations.

La Luclia states the existence of a band in Campaguay. Authentic advices state that immediately after the landing of Maximo Gomez, the same yacht which conveyed him returned to San Domingo for Gomez's son, who had 50 veterans with him. These were landed safely on the 19tli at the River Jako, south of Baracoa.

I'rivate Advices.

ST. LOUIS, April 30.—A special to The Republic from Key West says: "Private advices from Cuba state that General Flor Crombel was not killed in the battle, but was assassinated. He was surrounded by Spanish troops and requested an interview with the Spanish officer in command. The conference ended, Crombel turned to go, when a soldier in ambush shot him in the back of the head. Apart of Crombel's band was captured, and the remainder fled to the mountains.

A Spanish gunboat sighted a steamer near the coast of Cuba with 200 men on board. The gunboat chased her, but she got away. The general belief is that other expeditions have landed.

DURANT'3 COMPLAINT.

He Claims That the Public Is Disposed to Prejudice Him. SAN FRANCISCO, April 30.—Theodore

Durant was arraigned yesterday in the police court on a charge of murder for the killing of Blanche Lamont. The defendant conducted himself with his usual stoicism, and after the proceedings had along consultation with his attorneys. He complains bitterly, however, that the public is disposed to prejudice him. He says that every fact connected with the murder is made to fit his case, while suspicious circumstances regarding others are disregarded.

The coroner's inquest in the Lamont case, which commenced yesterday evening, will be continued every night until concluded, so as not to interfere with the preliminary examination of Durant for the Williams murder.

NO STRIKE.

Massillon Miners Will Simply Wait For That Rate. MASSILLON, O., April 30.—AN absurd

report telegraphed from Canton says that notices have been posted at the Massillon mines calling the men out on May 1, and stating that 20,000 men are affected. The dispatch is a tissue error. There can be no definite developments until after the joint conference at Columbus.

The notice referred to is simply the annual formal announcement that there will be no work after May 1, until the scale is fixed. This is in no sense a strike.

Police Protection For Nonunion Men.

St. Louis, MO., April 80.—At a conference of the boss bricklayers yesterday a communication was ordered sent to Chief of Police Harrigan asking for additional police protection for the nonunion hodcairiers now at work. The employment offices about town have

points and bring them here.

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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

Study of His Childhood and Strong Characteristics.

BOYHOOD OF THE PUTUEE EMPEE0E.

Abrupt and Quarrelsome In Disposition, With No Kegard For Neatness of Attire. Lacked the Scholastic Trait—His First

Entry Into France.

[Copyright, 1S95, by Jclm Clark Ridpath.] II.—BOYHOOD.

Napoleon may be said to have had a threefold life, flewwan Italian by descent, a Corsican by variation, and a Frenchman by nationality. He was the last by a close contingency for Corsica had only become French a few months beforo his birth. We may here glance briefly at the aspect of the world at the date of his apparition.

The Bourbon monarchy of France was in its hectic heyday—knowing little, and fearing nothing. Its wisest organ was the minister of Foreign Affairs, the great Choiseul. Louis XV. was in the forty-sixth year of his reign. Italy consisted of distracted principalities, over which the papal power still extended its scepter in spectral majesty. Clement XIV. had reached the third month of his pontificate. The Hapsburg Joseph II. was in the fourth year of that imperial rule which had now become a shadow and illusion on the disk of time. Great Britain, gaining rapidly by conquest on foreign shores, had for ruler George III., then in the thirty-first year of his age.

In Aiherica the rebels of New England had been outlawed by Parliament for their "rash and hasty proceeding" against the tax on tea. Only a few miles from the birthscene in the house of Carlo Buonaparte was stationed a Provencal lieutenant with his regiment, of Lorraine, and his name was Mirabeau!

Letitia di Buonaparte was not quite nineteen years of ago when her war-god was born. Incidents in the first years,of tho Napoleonic childhood there are none recorded. We are left to himself and to his schoolmate Bourienne for our knowledge of the earliest characteristics and events of-his life.

The Corsican had a prodigious memory, and it reached back well toward his infancy. When in after years he spoke of himself—as he was much given to doing—he generally used exaggeration but we may not doubt that there was always a vein of sterling truth under-

CARLO BONAPARTE. FATHER OF NAPOLEON. running his dramatic recitals. We know indeed, out of the nature of the case, that his representations of his own child-character were in the main correct.

The young Buonaparte was from a babe abrupt and quarrelsome. His willfulness was extreme. The likelihood is that he never once in his life willingly obeyed anybody! Near his death, at Longwood, he declared that he was never afraid. His child-passion was frequently excited against Joseph, over whom he exercised a censorious sway from the time when they toddled together in the birth-room or fought in the yard. He appears to have loved his mother, and to have obeyed her in a morose and mathematical way but in his last talk he indicates that his conduct as a child toward the mother was rathef prudential than affectionate. He beara witness that the Kamolino lioness was tender in the treatment of him, as well as severe and just.

To their fourth child, Carlo Buonaparte and his wife gave the nime of Napoleon. At the first it was Napoleone. In this form the possessor retained it until, flaring up in Paris in the character of a young Jacobin, he threw away the Italian and aristocratic fictions in his name, to become plain, republican NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

The first teaching of the child Bonaparte was given by his mother. Then he was sent, in his sixth year, to a child's school kept by a woman. He went from the parental threshold in that same arbitrary and belligerent mood which characterized him ever. He fought with his schoolmates, among whom he appeared with no sign of neatness in his clothing, and nothing debonair in his manner.

At this time, beside his parents, he had two important relatives. One of these was Lucien Buonaparte, brother of his grandfather Joseph and the other was Joseph Fesch, afterwards the Cardinal FeBch, half-brother of his mother. The latter was a studious lad of twelve, who took an interest in his sister's son and tho former had wealth and influence in the island, both of which he was willing to bestow on the Bonaparte schoolboy. Young Fesch aided him with his lessons, and exercised a conservative influence on his temper. How little might it be foreseen that the younger of these twain, with his surly look and long hair and stockings down over his shoes in the dust of the playground, should one day, from an imperial palace in the most splendid city in the world despatch his elder playmate as ambassador to the Pope of Home 1

What were the civil and sooial influences around the scihoolhausa of Bo&a-

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parte: The sentiments of that place are among the most potent and enduring forces of life. The child nature imbibes unconsciously the prevailing principles of the hour and the character is forming while the first hesitant words are conned from the primer. The boy Napoleon had around his schoolroom—as around his cradle—an agitated atmosphere. It was banked with the receding clouds of revolution. There was lightning on the rim, and blood on the fringes.

The majority of the Corsicans had accepted tho French dominations. Some still remembered Genoa with affection and many sighed for independence. Among the latter were the Buonapartes. The feeling of regret for the lost cause began to wane about the time that Napoleon was sent to school but there was still in his heart a drop of inherited bitterness on account of the French conquest. He looked back angrily at the terriblo conditions surrounding him in his childhood. As late as his twentieth year he broke out in passion. "I was born," said he, "while my country was dying. Thirty thousand French, vomited on our shores, drowning the throne of liberty in waves of blood-~-such was the horrid sight which first met my view. The cries of the dying, the groans of the oppressed, tears of despair, surrounded my cradle at my birth." The utterance shows how hardly the future emperor of the French himself in youth became a Frenchman.

When, from the sixth to tho ninth year of his age, the boy Bonaparte attended school in his native town, three lines radiated before his feet. One of these was dim and clouded, but glorified with patches of extreme light. It was the way into the kingdom of that New Philosophy which was just then revealing itself with such brilliancy in France. A second and well trod way led straightly to the Church. Rome was great and honorable. Her rewards of diligent ambition were rich and certain. The young aspirant who entered the colleges might well expect emolument and reputation. The third path led dangerously to the military life. None might at that time discern the coming upheaval of society, with its concomitant reign of the sword. But the agitations of the epoch were sufficient to encourage war, and to offer a measure of inducement to follow in the path of military glory.

The taciturn schoolboy of Ajaccioliad these three open ways before him. From the first, he was precluded by tho dispositions of his family, intensified in himself. He never had the scholastic trait. His abilities as a pupil, and afterwards as a military cadet, showed nothing of the philosophe. Indeed ho conceived—how early in boyhood wo know not—a prejudice against philosophy and the philosophers as well. As for the Church, he had an inbred admiration for Home but tho kind of life offered in the priesthood was without attractions for him personally. He was willing that Joseph and other of his friends should become priests and bishops but not himself. 'Neither the scholar's gown nor the priest's surplice offered the slightest attraction to his imagination.

The condition of the Buonaparte family about the years 177G-78was critical. Carlo, the father, had given an interested adhesion to the French. Ho had his hopes from the annexation. He would keep his titles and recover the properties formerly belonging to the family. The Buonaparte estates in Corsica had been mostly lost. Some had been confiscated by the Genoese party and converted into Jesuit schools. The recent revolution had reduced Carlo's means almost to naught. He^vas himself of no reputation as an economist. His family had rapidly multiplied. Two children died in infancy between the birth of Napoleon and that of Lucien, in 1775. The family was brought almost to penury.

Carlo de Buonaparte could not get back his properties. The privilege of writing his name with a de did not compensate for his losses. He struggled with adversity, and sought the aid of influential friends. Among these the most available was General Marbceuf. The latter in 1776 appealed on behalf of his Corsican friends to the authorities in Paris for the privilege of educating the Buonaparte boys in France at tho expense of the royal treasury. This thing might be done—provided the applicants should be under ten years of age, and be able to show four strains of noble blood in their veins! In the caso of the boys Buonaparte, this could not be proved and affairs in the homestead went from bad to worse.

At this juncture history, rather than man, came to the rescue. France was on the verge of bankruptcy. One finance minister after another was appointed, and one financial scheme after another exploded in the hands of the inventors. It became necessary to call together, at Versailles, a council of the nobles. Carlo de Buonaparte was chosen a representative from Corsica. In going to perform his duty at the French capital, he took with him, to be distributed en route, bis two sons, Joseph and Napoleon also, the boys' half nncle, Joseph Fesch also, a cousin of Letitia, the mother. As for Fesch, he was to be left as a student at Aix. The cuusin had been appointed to an office in the church at Autun and at that place the distraoted father determined to drop his two sons at school.

This was in the year 1778. The company set out by way of Florence, Genoa, Marseilles, Lyons. The youngest of the company was a sad-faced, big-eyed boy, in such apparel as could be furnished in the house of an impecunious nobleman. The boy's head was bent forward as he walked. His foot now for the first time touched the continent. He was in his tenth year. He muttered broken ejaculations to his companions. It was Napoleon Bonaparte on his way to Autun —and the world.

JOHN CLARK RIDPATH.

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