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ENGLISH exports to this couutry are increasing, while our exports to that country are decreasing. That is what the Wilson law was passed for, though. England favored it and then banqueted its author.

THERE is considerable of a row at Indianapolis over the school Boards order that the school teachers and scholars all march on Memorial day to the State House. Some of the teachers claim that many of the little children are physically unable 1 stand the walk. They claim they are not lacking in patriotism but physical endurance. We believe school teachers us a class, are patriotic and are doing a grand and noble work. There should, however, be a flag exercise in the schools and talks on patriotism, so that the children \v ould be thoroughly grounded in the principles and ideas that go to make the best possible citizens. With the children thoroughly -planted OD the trinity, "Love of Gt d, Love of Couutry and Love of Home the Country is safe."

LAST year Cleveland and Hoke Smith started out on the policy of calling large numbers of old Union veterans pension frauds, [perjurers and scoundrels who were lawfully drawing pensions. 12,000 or 3 'Ore were dropped from the rolls but utter thousands of dollars spent in special investigations nearly every man was restored not because Cleveland & Co. wanted to but because they had to do so. Now they have taken a new tack which is shown by the following clipping from the Indianapolis News.

The pension bureau is now reducing pensions at the rate of §120000 per annum lrom $12 per month to $G, $8 and $10. The object of this policy is to make the reductions of those who have received $12 a mouth supply the money necessary to pay those whom Congress increased to $6 a month. The Mexician pensioner however, continues to receive $12 a mouth.

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THE cry was sent up all over the country that the putting wool on the free list would give the people better clothing and stop the use of "shoddy." The treasury statistics give an interesting les. in on that subject. Under the McKinley act only 1,504 pounds of shoddy and waste were imported in March of last year. In the same month this year 2,118,669 pounds were imported, showing again of 1,407.69 per cent. In the importations of shoddy and waste under the old law, for the nine months ending March 31, in 1894, the importations were 75,923 pounds, while for the eight months ending at the same time under the new law the importations were 9,713,187 pounds. The new law is keeping out shoddy by increasing its importations 1,407.69 per cent. Such importations of shoddy were never before known in the history of the country.—Crawfordsville Journal.

We commend the above statistics to ex-Congressman Bynum and the Democrats who applauded so vociferously when he said you could hold some of the shoddy clothing made in this country under the McKinley law up to your ear and almost hear the bugs crawling around in the vile stuff.

JOHN HERRON an old citizen, of Indianapolis, who died recently in Los Angeles, Cal., has left a magnificent gift to the Indianapolis Art Association amounting to $200,000. All that he requires is that his name shall be connected with the Institution. As he leaves no relation nearer than a third cousin, was of a sound and disposing mind when the will was made Oct. 1892 and was in no wise influenced by the Association as they were not even aware of the gift, the will will undoubt.edly stick. The Association is greatly rejoiced and well they may be for they can now accomplish great things in the way of advancing art interest. Such a gift will be of lasting benefit to the citizens of Indianapolis especially the younger generation who can get the benefit of this great gift in the way of Ait Culture and its beneficent influences. We hope some of Greenfields rich men will be moved by the same public spirit and make to a public Library Association a suitable gift so that a splendid library could be started at once that would be a benefit and blessing to all the people of our city. The School Board thoroughly impressed with the needs of the city will have a suitable room in the new High School building for a library and reading room. Now some man or woman who wants to do good and ever have their name held in reverence admiration and gratitude by a loving people should come to the front and with a generous sum found a library to be called after them. It would be a source of great good and as a monument would out last a thousand marble monuments or costly mausoleums. We would suggest that this be done by a gift or deed now during the life of the donor so that they might enjoy and receive the thanks and blessings of a grateful people. They are several parties in our city amply able to make such a gift or two could combine and make a grander one. We will have a library because all the citizens are going to donate liberally but as a starter however we want a gift that will fix a name for the library. Who ever wants their name perpetuated that way and to be ever remembered as one of blessed memory for a grand and noble gift let them and step to the frent.

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OUR State Supreme Court has recently decided that a city which suffers an obstruction to remain for an unreasonable length of time upon the sidewalks, so that the city might be presumed to have notice of obstuction, will be liable therefor to the same extent as if the city had itself placed the obstruction upon the highway in the first instance. The use of a street for a deposit of building materals can exist only in case of necessity, and after taking due precaution not to injure any person lawfully using the street for public travel. It is piioia facie negligence in a city to allow lumber to be piled in its streets.

THE drouth, the freeze, the chinch bug and Heision fly have all damaged wheat and as the prospects are for a short ci-op all over the country the price is steadily climbing up. Yesterday it advanced two cents per bushel in Chicago.

LAST year the deficit in the National treasury of expenditures over receipts was $70,000,000. This year it will be over $55,000,000. That means more bonds for Cleveland's friends.

"COUNT vour blessings."

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The executive committee of the Democratic Editorial Association of the State met at the Grand Hotel Indianapolis Friday afternoon to arrange a program and select a date for the sear-annual meeting of the association which is to be held at Maxinkuckee in June. Those in attendance were F. A. Arnold, of the Greencastle Star Press Lewis Holzman, of the Brazil Democrat, F. D. Haimbaugh, of Muncie Herald R. E. Purcell, of the Vincenues Sun and C. W. Wellman, of the Sullivan Times.

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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

The Young Soldier Ambitious to Shine as an Author.

WHITES A HISTORY OP 00ESI0A.

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Native Land—Despotic Treatment of His Kinsfolk—At This Period Displays Willfulness and Gloom. [Copyright, 1895, by John Clark Ridpath.]

V.—FLASHES OF OBSCUKITY. The insurrection in Lyons quelled itself before the arrival of Lieutenant Bonaparte's contingent. Tho municipality proved itself sufficiently strong to put down the insurgents without the assistance of the military arm. Fighting there was none. Napoleon's company, arriving in due time, was stationed in the city for a month. It was a small beginning of war for him who was destined, with less than a decade, to lead a victorious army over the Alps into Italy.

The disturbance at Lyons put a date to Bonaparte's career at Valence. He had remained in that place from the fall of 1785 to August of 1787. This period of twenty-three montns, though obscure in its manifestations, was one of the most important in his life. It was the transition from youth to early manhood. At this stage in the lives of men, the mind passes rapidly from one condition to another. Particularly is this true if study have been the mood and genius the attribute of the person concerned.

Tha ambition of the young officer now shot out in several directions. Deeply impressed with the fame and power of the great authors whose writings just then were setting the world aflame, he, too, would be an author! Such was the quality of this singular personage that he never distrusted himself in anything. Before the end of his eighteenth year he conceived himself able and qualified to write a history! Corsica should be his theme. He would write tho annals of his native land in so philosophical a manner as to place him alongside of the Abbe Raynall He went so far as to address a letter to that august personage, telling him that he himself, though a youth, was already a writer. He begged the historian to excuse his audacity. Ho flattered him by saying that indulgence, extended to a neophyte, was a

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sure mark of genius! He enclosed to the Abbe the first two chapters of his alleged "History of Corsica," the cacography only being surpassed by the heresy of the rhetoric and the massage of grammar!

We half suspect that tho bottom motive of this business was not the hope of being a historian, but rather the distinction of having correspondence with a great man. However this may be, the Abbe indulged Napoleon, wrote to him, advised him to study further, and then to rewrite his work. Not only did the historical ambition liavo the Lieutenant, but the romantic also. He took somewhat to novels, and for the first time falling in love, determined to write a novel. At the house of Madame du Colombier, he made the acquaintance of her beautiful daughter, and fell in love with her—after the manner of all young lieutenants. The flame of this passion presently went out, but traces of it are seen in his correspondence until what time—ceasing to love Madamoiselle Colombier he turned pessimist, denounced love as a mockery, and in particular as tho drawback to human ambition 1

In the midst of the fitful gleams of this erratic life may be 6een burning the coals of that furnace-heat which the years have not yet extinguished. Tho student Bonaparte became a pale, living reality. He supplied himself with the works of the leading authors of the age, and devoured them with the rapacity of one starving. He made himself familiar with the writings of Voltaire and Necker. The one he followed through the mazes of the new French learning, and the other through the intricacies of practical finance. For months together, in his lodgings and about the barracks, ha might be seen, with book in hand, muttering as ho read, penciling the margins, approving and condemning the doctrine, according to his judgment or whim. There never was a time in his life when he swept within his grasp a greatex amount of intellectual products than during the after part of 1786 and the first half of the following year.

Coincident with the date of tho Lyons episode, came a military order sending the Regiment La Fere from Valence tc Douai, in French Flanders, three hundred and ninety miles distant. Here Napoleon found himself exposed to northern blasts and unfamiliar hardships. In his correspondence he complains bitterly of his situation. He got a fever of both mind and body, and the effects oi it lasted for several years. His unhappiness became extreme, and jie sought by every means in his power to escape from the situation. He would get away or kill himself! Nor were very powerful reasons wanting why ho should go elsewhere.

The Bonaparte family in Oorsica had fallen by this time into desperate straita JfoMph bad undertaken to build up a

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wine-trade with Italy, but had failed— as he did with most things else. Lucien, a student at Brienne, was doing his best to get a transfer to Aix, where he might substitute a priestly for a military education. Madame de Bonaparte, now thirty-seven years of age, was hoping against hope that the government would pay her the petty stipend due for the care of her mulberry orchards, but no payment was made.

Thero came want into the household. Lieutenant Bonaparte, making the condition of his family a plausible excuse, sought, and in February of 1788, obtained, leave of absence to visit Corsica. Thither he went, in poor health and general morbidity of mind. By this time his arbitrary character had begun to show itself in full force. Once at home, he played the despot. He hectored all his kinsfolk, with the exception of the mother, aud she could hardly withstand his impetuosity, willfulness and gloom.

Home again after an absence of nearly nine years, the young officer busied himself more with things great than things little. He was more concerned with the political condition of the world than with the daily needs of his mother's house. He dwelt more on the state of Corsica than on the emptiness of Madame Bonaparte's cuisine—more on the woes of Ajaccio than on those of his brothers' and sisters' stomachs. He conceived himself to bo the patriot par excellence of his age, and spent more time in delivering socialistic monologues than in contriving the means to rescue the family from impending ruin.

It was at this juncture that Napoleon began to concern himself especially about the institutions and history of England. Along with his Necker he studied Smith's "Wealth of Nations," then only twelve years from the press. The Elizabethan age—not indeed for the intellectual glory that was in it, but for its political intrigues—impressed him greatly and ho undertook to do into fiction the features of that era in a novel eniitled tho "Count of Essex." Then he flew back to his "History of Corsica," revised the parts which he had sent to the Abbo Raynal, and pressed on with the rest. Alongside of Voltaire, he would set up a rival production of his own, called tho "Masked Prophet"—a marvelous and impossible invention out of Persia! Literature was thus mixed with affairs fiction flourished at tho meager meals which Madame Bonaparte was able to set for her family and anathemas of Joseph's unprofitable wine-shop wero illuminated with paragraphs about tho glories of rebellion.

Bonaparte's leavo of absence—so eagerly sought—soon became as intolerable to him as to tho rest. His paper gave him privilege to be away from his command for six months but before the end of tho fourth month—inventing casuistical reasons—ho impatiently left Corsica to rejoin his company. During his stay in the island, he had accomplished something—something that would havo been much in any other. He had induced the French intendant to agree to allow his mother's claim. Ho had pushed forward tho inert Joseph to try the law as a profession, and had seen him installed at Bastia. He had urged upon his gouty uncle the necessity of patriotism! He had drawn up and submitted a system of coast defenses for the principal ports of the island. Ho had prepared a scheme for the creation of an insular army. He had studied and written incessantly at a furious speed, completing his Oriental novel and his "History of Corsica." The latter was cast in the epistolary form, and was dedicated to Monseigneur Marbceuf, now promoted to the see of Sens.

Meanwhile the Regiment La Fere had been ordered from Douai, to Auxonne, in Cote d'Or, 182 miles from Paris. Thither Napoleon repaired, to rejoin his command, in the last week of May, 1788. He took with him the manuscript of his "History of Corsica," seeking a publisher, but finding none, either at Valence or Lyons or Auxonne or Paris or anywhere else in this mundane sphere forever.

It would be impossible to define the mental condition of Napoleon at this stage of bis development. Politically— for though a soldier he was always a politician he wetit halting between two forces. The one tendency drew him powerfully towards the local independence of his native island. This involved hatred of the conquest and annexation of Corsica to France. It also involved hatred of France itself of the French race and of the French monarchy in particular. But the other tendency drew Franceward with equal stress. It was from the powerful fact of France that all benefits had thus far flowed to the family of Bonaparte. By France he had himself been educated. Besides, Corsica, even as an independent state, was a limited field of action. Franco is great. France offers world-wido distinction. Our commission as Lieutenant of artillery is a French commission, and our very sword is a French blade.

But our "History of Corsica" is a patriotic and insurrectionary document. It is inconsistent with our allegiance, and hurtful to what France may promise hereafter. Therefore wo would better shuffle, and rewrite our book. Wewill put it into the mouth of a Corsican patriot of the old Genoese faction, to which tho family of our mother Ramolino once belonged. In its present form we make a copy of it, and send it to the great Paoli in London but he returns it to us, putting us off with the counsel that wo are as yet immature, "too young for writing history," and adding words to the effect that our book is not sufficiently original. In truth, our mind is a vortex, a maelstrom of conflicting tides. Hero at Auxonne, during our stay of eighteen months, we will sit down again, insatiable, in solitary gloom, and devour the greatest things thought and written fty men whom we shall one day surpass and eclipse I «. -i JOHN CLARK RIDPATH.

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