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PUBLISHED KVJfcill THURSDAY.

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YOL. 16, Ho. 10- Fntered at enond-clasa mall ui-itter. W. S. MONTGOMERY,

Publisher and Proprietor

Circulation This Week, 2,700.

CHAUXCEV DEPEW says the issue in 1896 will be "Good times vs Hard times" —the Republican performances against Democratic promises.

THE May monthly public debt statement shows that Uncle Sam's finances continue in the down chute. The public debt for April increased more than nine millions and the treasury deficit for the fiscal year went up to more than fortyfive million.

FOB many years the United states approved and upheld the patriotic "Monroe doctrine" which opposed the intervention of European governments with affairs of the American Republics. This seems, has been superceded by the1

Cleveland doctrine, which allows England to do as she pleases with Nicaragua and other little Republics. Cleveland and his followers favor Euglish free trade and the English single gold standard. Anything, know."

just so it is "Hinglish, you

THE farmers of this county are n-\\ becoming somewhat alarmed over the continued drouth. It is the case all over the State, and from what we gather from the State press, Hancock county is in ucli better shape than the majority of 11, ounties, as they are neither so well ut ired nor is the ground elsewhere so capable of standing dry weather. The corn crop of this county is about all in, in the finest shape ever known before, but it, as well as oats, wheat and grass, need a fine rain to give them their usual spring growth.

Friday night at midnight the Democrat Legislature of Tennessee voted that Peter Turney had received a majority of the legal votes cast at last fall's election and was therefore re-elected Governor of the State. Thus is consummated an outrage that has been in contemplation since last fall when Henry Clay Evans a Republican was elected Governor of Tennessee by a good sized majority. This steal will react on the Democrats and the Republicans will sweep the State in 1896. Dishonesty does not pay even iii politics as there are always honest men who will repudiate the crimes of the lead ers of any party. Let Henry Clay Evans be the Republican nominee next time.

MEXICO has coined in gold, silver and copper since the year 1573, $3,456,obT,356 and there is iiow in Mexico only £55,000,000 of coin, the balance has been sent away to Europe and other countries for goods. This is the result of free trade. What better object lesson does this country want than this statement.

Just think of it out of eve.-y $68 the Mexicans have coined they have only one. No wonder they are a poor nation. That Nation, city or indvidual is prosperous whose income exceeds its expenditures. England has gone on that principle until now she is the great creditor Nation of the world and gold is continuously'fiowing into her coffers from all quarters of the globe and she gets richer and richer day by day. The New England States in this country have followed some what after the style of Old England in that matter aud those States have a large aggregation of wealth per capita as nearly all are money lenders. The policy o£ free trade which many people in this country advocate would have a tendency to draw the mouey out of this country to England and other foreign countries for goods manufactured there. The Republican doctrine of protection which enables our people to manufacture their own goods and sell them at fair prices after giving their employees good wages is the best policy for the United States as by it we are enabled to keep more money at home and thereby become a richer and more prosperous people. What America wants is protection reciprocity and prosperity.

CLEVELAND in a letter to Gov. Stone, of Mississippi, has declared his intentions in regard to office holders wl^p do not dance to his music when he fiddles. He says "Office holders who apparently assume they may spend the time they owe to public service in doing political mischief must not be surprised if they are summarily dealt with. That is to say if they oppose what Boss Cleveland dictates they are doing political mischief. The public service cuts no figure when he wants to go cat-fishing or duck hunting or spending a few months at Buzzrrds Bay or Eckels or Carlisle go round making single gold standard speeches for the benefit of .Cleveland's English friends, that business is patriotic.

If however an office holder favors and advocates free silver coinage he is a fit candidate for the spoilsmen's ax and must not be surprised if he is summarily dealt with. An Arkansas man who was employed in the public printing office at Washington wrote home to an Arkansas paper and over his own signature advocated free silver coinage and referred to Cleveland as "a grand old rascal" and said "he is as full of perfidy^ as a snow ball is of water." That young Arkansan is now looking for a job. He was given the grand bounce and other office holders or people wanting pie must bow at the shrine o£ thp great "(*. €.r or- fee will fihg.

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A HECEPTION BE THEWOMANS CLUB.

Given in honor of ill's. ir. A. «J. Smith. Their Guests Tin- Hesperian auU Cosmopolitan Clubs.

Friday afternoon a most delightful reception was given by the Woman's club at the home of Mrs. Ephraim Marsh, on North State street.

The guests were received in the North parlor by Mrs. Marsh, president of the club,Mrs.R.A.B!ack who was the 1st president,and Mrs. Smith in whote honor the reception was given. Afier a Lime of social chat they were esccrted to the dining room by Mesdames I. P. Poulson, Marion Steele and Nellie Barnett, where they were served to salads and ice by Mesdames, W. O. Bragg, W. fc£. Martin and W. S. Montgomery, from here tbey were ushered to ihe cuifee room which was presided over by Mrs. G. S. Wilson and Mrs. N. R. Spencer. Delicious and refreshing clierry punch was served in tlie east parlor by Miss Marsh. The rooms were profusely aud beautifully decorated with spring blossoms and palms. The north parlor Laving lilacs as tlie prevailing flower, the south parlor was beautiful with roses and pansies, the mantel in this room being remarked upon for its particular attractiveness.

The dining room was daintily decorated in yellow the club's colors,marshmarigold and yellow roses being used. The coffee room was a perfect bower in green and white, large branches t»f haw blos&oms being used. The guests were the members of the Hesperian and Cosmopolitan clubs. Mri. A. J. Smith who is soon to leave for an extended trip in the south, has been a prominent, active and faithful member of the Woman's club since its organization and it is with regret that they part from her.

Tlie Bottle Glass Factory to Start up. Mr. Will Refferty who looks after the interests of the Holweg & Reece glass factory, informed the REPUBLICAN this morning that the factory would probably start up about May 15th. It is not definitely settled however. There is a great shortage of fruit jars in the country and it is possible if the factory runs that two shifts of men will be used and work be continued both night and day. In that way probably 200 people would be given employment for six weeks at good wages. The factory would take gas of the Central Indiana Co. We trust the factory will not only run the rest of this season but all of the next glass year as 'it gives employment to so many people.

DEATHS.

As reported by C. W. Morrison & Son Undertakers. Hinds, infant of Mr. and Mrs. Melone Hinds in Uuion township, Shelby county, Wednesday morning, May 1st. Funeral Thursday morning.

Bowman, infant of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bowman, of Vanburen township, Shelby county, Wednesday, May 1st. Funeral Thursday Morning at Haaover cemetery.

Samuel Dewitt, aged 52 years of canc Friday evening, May 3rd at the home of his brother-in law Andrew Richey, three miles south of this city, Funeral at Mt. Lebanon Sunday at 10:30.

Dunn, three months old son, of Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Dunn, of Morristown, Sunday afternoon. May 5, of brain fever. Funeral at residence Tuesday at 1 p. m. by Elder Smith, interment at Asbury cemetery.

A Proiitable Crop.

Raise cane for molasses and the seed cane will produce from 25 to 35 bushels of clean seed per acre, worth from 40 to 50 cents per bushel, and the molasses is worth 50 cents per gallon and generally produces from 100 to 150 gallons per acre. Cane will stand more drouth and more rain than other crops and yield well. Cane seed is as profitable for feed as corn for all stock if ground aud fe d.

Reduced Bates to Meridian, Miss. Via the Pennsylvania Lines.

May 12th to 14th excursion tickets to Meridian, Miss., on account of the General Assembly, Cumberland Presbyterian church, will be sold at reduced round trip rates from stations on the Pennsylvania lines. Return coupons valid until June 3rd, inclusive. wl9d

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GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN. THURSDAY MAY 9. 1855.

Military Studies Begun In the School of Brienne.

HIS WAE GENIUS FORESHADOWED.

Defiant In Manner, He Incurred the Animosity of His Fellows Arrested For Challenging a Schoolmate—Battle of the

Snow Fort—Desired to Lead, Not Follow.

[Copyright, 1S95, by Jolrn Clark Eidpath.]

III. —AUTUN AND BRIEXNE. The old town of Autun lies on the left bank of theArroux, 104 miles southeast of Paris. Hero tho boys Buonaparte were put to school, in January of 1779. The town is an epitome of European history. It was the capital of the brave iEduans, whom Caesar overcame in the first year of the Gallic war. Napoleon, in his tenth year, arrived at the gates. He was put under charge of the Abbe Chardon, nephew of the General Marbocuf. The latter devoted himself to the interests of the Buonaparte family, and paid a part of the expenses.

Meanwhile the father and Marboeuf had gone to Versailles, and were assiduous in their efforts to get the boys est&b-

NAPOLEON AT TWENTY-TWO.

lished as pensioners. The solicitation was that the young fellows should be educated at tho expense of the state. Marboeuf invented a fiction, flecked with fact, about the nobility of his wards and tho petition was granted finally as to Napoleon. But Joseph had now passed the limit of his eleventh year, and was no longer eligible—unless by violation of law. He must therefore bo diverted to the priesthood, while the younger brother was assigned, at the public charge, to the military academy at Brienne-la-Chapelle, on the right bank of the Aube, in the department of the same name, a hundred and eighteen miles from Paris. Thither he was transferred in the latter part of April, 1779, and was admitted as a cadet.

At Autun, the chief business had been to teach him French. He applied himself closely to this task, but not very successfully. He learned to speak French, brokenly, with an Italian accent. To the end of his life he never acquired a nice knowledge of the adopted tongue. His grammar was broken, his composition thunderstruck, and his spelling heretical. His practical knowledge of the language which he was destined to use for forty-two years in his intercourse with men was sufficient but his mind was never tolerent of technicalities.

This trait of neglecting the exactitudes was strongly manifested from Napoleon's childhood. He went as far as the practical in whatever subject he touched but having seized thus much, he cared for nothing else. He desired correctness in others, for that was useful to him but as for himself, he wanted only aggregate results and a knowledge of their practical advantage. All authors have commented on the inaccuracies and lapses in the Napoleonic correspondence and manuscripts. It became his habit to slur over, in his rapid way, tho errors in his writing and his arrogance seemed to convince him that, while correct si lling was an accomplishment inpedK,'. gues, it was rather a fault in great men.

The young Bonaparte is described by his master as being of solemn demeanor rarely laughing never happy or mirthful no disposition for playing proud and solitary easily wounded always resentful learning with lightning-like rapidity, but stopping short of correctness vain of his faculties patriotism almost morbid disliking the powerful foreign race with which his lot had been cast looking back regretfully to Corsica, and (most unboylike) thinking more of his country than he did of his home and mother.

Already, before leaving Autun, the pale little Bonaparte fell into frequent quarrels with his French schoolmates about the Corsican revolution! They insulted him with the charge that his countrymen had been cowards else they would hare won their independence. To this he answered angrily that if the Frenoh had outnumbered his people only four to one, the invaders would have been defeated. Military calculation already 1

The military academy at Brienne Was one of ten of like kind recently established in the kingdom. Besides these, there were two higher schools, one at Paris and the other at La Fleche. This system had superseded another which had failed on account of its unpopularity. The military education and the right thereto was a plum for the nobles. Boys of the Third Estate had therein no part or lot. In the schools were gathered the weakened reproductions of a moribund nobility. The governors of the schools were even as tlie cadets. The institutions degnerated, until there was a popular reaction against them. There was a reform, headed by the Church. New schools were established, and monks were put In charge of them!

At the time when the boy Napoleon 'went to Brienne, the remarkable condition presented of Rystem of military schpols in chnrgo cf Oft mon&fttlo ,,,

fathers. The Brienne academy was conducted by the Minim Fathers, good men in their way, but as sources of inspiration to lads with the gleam of military glory in their brains they were mere dullness and obfuscation! The courses of study were mathematics, geography, history, Latin, modern languages, philosophy, and such poor misnamed science as might be squeezed from the sponge of clerical dogmatism in the eighteenth century.

Such was the disciplinary fare which was offered to the boy Napoleon. He was now far removed from friends and kinsmen. He made tho acquaintance, of his schoolmates admired one of them —Bourienne—and seemed to love another—Des Mazis but his character and manner were rocks of offense to the rest of the hundred and fifty. Nothing more striking has been presented in personal annals than the contrast which the poor Corsican lad, with his solemn face, long, stiff black hair, haughty expression, close-shut Italian mouth, solitary pride of bearing, aud unfashionable insular suit, afforded to the throng of noble, mocking effeminates among whom he was washed up as from the sea.

On his entrance into tho academy— •which was a clean, well-ordered place —Napoleon brought from the Abbe Chardon certificates of moderate proficiency and the usual character-sketch of himself as a pupil. But nothing protected him from the inane animosity of his fellows. They jeered at him in a manner that would have driven a less resolute spirit to despair. Had he been complaisant, he might easily havo won peace, if not popularity but his defiant air seemed to challenge the attacks of the contemptuous crowd.

Deep down in the situation lay the provocation of poverty. The boy perceived the disparagement to which he was subjected on this score and it maddened him not a little. His most troublesome characteristic was this—that he would not follow in anything. He would lead. He would be first or nothing. Assumption of leadership and tho air of it brought oil him still greater contumely. The bitterness of the situation sometimes came to the verge of bloodshed. Once he got himself arrested for challenging another to fight him on account of an insulting remark about his father. The sullen boy went muttering to the guard-house. Nor was he restored to condition until Marboeuf had interceded in person with the authorities.

Out of this epocli c-ome some wellknown stories of tlie student Bonaparte at Brienne. In cour: of time, his fel-low-cadets, understanding him better, became first tolerant, and then friendly. Friendship in tho case of tho proud and arbitrary cadet meant subjection to his will. While ho could not be companionable in sports, he could and would command. The existence of the tradition about his dividing his fellows into two armies, building a fort in winter out of snow (building it, too, accordiug to tho principles of good engineering!), making a siege, with snowballs for bombs, and with all the seriousness of Genghis Khan carrying the place by storm, may well attest his disposition and growing ascendency at tho academy.

The young Napoleon-remained at Brienne from April of 1779 to the year 1784. The inspector Keralio, coming from Paris to the military school, discerned in the slender cadet from Ajaccio the bints of promise. Tho method was in such cases to send up students from the minor academies to the Military School of Paris. Sometimes promotion was made directly to the navy and this was considered a great honor. It appears that the inspector would have had CadetBonaparte sent to the fleet but the offi-* cer died before his wish could bo fulfill4 ed.

Accordingly, at the end of Napoleon's course at Brienne, ho was recommended for promotion to the military school in Paris. At this time, namely, in 1784, when Napoleon was in his sixteenth year, ho was personally described by the inspector in the following terms: "M. de Bonaparte (Napoleon), born August 15, 1769. Height, 4 pieds, 10 polices, 10 lignes( metre, 59 centimetres, 3 millimetres=5 feet, 2.7 inches), is in the fourth class of good constitution, excellent health, mild disposition (mistake there, Inspector!). Is upright, grateful conduct very regular has been always distinguished for his application to mathematics is fairly acquainted with history and geography is weak in all accomplishments (very true, Monsieur de Keralio!) and Latin. He will make an excellent sailor deserves promotion to the Military School in Paris."

The character of the young Napoleon at this period of his career reveals in one thing a depth and far-off sigh that might well have belonged to the forceful years of his maturity. The thing related to Joseph, his brother. As early as the coming to Autun, Napoleon excogitated the scheme to lodge his brother on the safe ledge of the priesthood. Thus would he have him out of his way! Given a military career for both, and Joseph must be, by seniority, before him. But nothing shall be before him. Arguments fit for Richelieu ar« found why Joseph shall enter the Church, rise to distinction, be a Monseigneur, and by that ways defend, support and advance the prospects of the family of Buonaparte. As for me, I will accept the hardships of the military life and maybe something beyond! There are on record several subtle communications written by the young casuist, strongly urging the priestly office as the one thing suitable and advantageous for Joseph. Our future king of Naples or Spain or both, willingly obedient to tlie imperial scepter, shall testify to our prescience and brotherly wisdom!

JOHN

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