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HE SHOOK THE WORLD i ( But Napoleon Died on Lonely South ( Atlantic Island. j t Exchange. ! < On a lonely wind-swept island in: 1 the South Atlantic one hundred years!! ago a gigantic storm was blowing. { The wind hurled itseli against the j t rocky bit of land after endless empty {\ miles of the open sea; it ripped jv through the gumwood trees, uproot-'1 ing ihem, crashing among the banana. t groves, whipping broad leaves to j i shreds. It fingered the eaves of the; I few isolated buildings, now and again j \it took a roof, or crushed in a stable ? 1 shed. j 3 At a small villa on the island, she?- j tered by a thicket of scrubwood, theji curtain was about to fall on the last i c act of one of the world's great dra- j v mas. Here within the villa stood i c Marchand, there Dr. Antonimarchi, j c by the Window Montholon, on the bod f ; lay a man. Death was in the anti-; s Aom. Vignail already had adminis-jt tered the last rites of the church, j s There was only the waiting: left. All day, May 4, the storms raged, 1 and all the next day. The villa rock- I ed on its foundations, <trees round-; c about it broke under the weight ofj the wind or were plucked out by the \ * roots. Inside the sick room the man J e was in a delirious stupor; dreams ofj? old battlefields drifted like smoke jg wreathes in the moonlight across the; h clouded mind; plaudits of the oldi^ splendid dimly in his ears and he ? murmured his pleasure at the com-if forts of these memories had for him. J Friendly seekers afterword of the i Y dying man came and went through v the storm, but there was no word! a save the reiterated "Not yet." J u At length the day of the 5th wore i s to an end, the tempest was -blowing; c itself out. About 6 in the evening I s the words teta d'armee fell from the j t lips of the dying man. A moment ;e later he had passed forever from hisjh earthly dreams of empire; the cur-! tain had fallen?Napoleon Bonaparte j1< was dead. ! v Wrecker, waster of great oppor-jti tunities, an adventurer accomplish-: n ing what he did that he might daze i t: - i , V the folks at home, "the man wno bored God," the "antithesis of Christ," e the greatest egotist the world has si produced?such has been called. On the other hand he stands the inspira- v tion of h who would struggle up-'r ward to the peaks of success?Xapo-^n leon of industry, Napoleon of fi-; o nance?who stands at the head of his^T fellows in iNapoieomc?eternal sym- j u bol of ambition, of achievement, of i li success- To all men he has been | tl all these things; a century has not o fixed his place, only has testified j r that his name is written indelibly in j I. history. ja An obscure little Corsican, short! a and square of stature, nevertheless! li he was destined to shake the civiliz- f ed world, to bring more than the j a half of Europe under his domination ; ^ He came to the surface in the latter j s days of the French revolution; there ! t followed the Italian campaign, Jos?e-;t phine, Egypt, first consul of France, |t * j Marengo, emperor of the French, >s Ulm and Austerlitz, Maria Louisa ofje Autria, Moscow, Elba, the Hundred | n Days, Waterloo?so runs the course ii of his remarkable life. je Waterloo was the end; there was i no twilight, for he was thrust imme-!a * ' " .1 i i T diateiy oy ine auies, wno n;ui oeau-n; * him into the oblivion of St. Helena. America had appealed to him as a h refuge when his sun was set, but v there was^ no escaping the English, jt His strateijems gone astray at Roche- j*1 fort, there was nothing to do but goj^ abroad the Bellerophon and trust S himself to the generosity of his, I1 enemies. e He was taken to London, where he 1 was held on shipboard while his fate e was being decided, trans-shipped to the Northumberland and without having set foct on English soil, on Au- t gust 8, 1815, he began hfs lon<r jour-J c inn + <-> Cf Holono i y"> A t- 1 C J IV/ kjl. 1XV1V1114 lit V11V * V lantic. On October 15 he had his c t first view of his destined exile. Wea-1 i ry of life aboard ship he went ashore t with his small following o? friends;% who had accompained him and took 1 up temporary quarters in the Briars, 1" a cottage that was provided until the, r villa at Longwooa was ready. I c Napoleon at St. Helena was another (' person from the Napoleon of other c dfeys. He had been broken on the s wheel of fate. Rumor during the r Hunderd Days had said that his health 1 was failing. Whether so or not. it was c noticeable at St. Helena that his old f physical activity, his one-time mental t energy, were only shadows of what ] \ they had been. The extraordinary t percaution taken by the English to, I prevent his escape irked him: 1200 < miles of occan separated the island t from coast of Africa. Day and night 2 i brigs patrolled the coast, two frigates c lay in the island's only harbor. The \ inn villa T.on<rwood i jjiaitrau un v>iin.n iiiv ...... was located was surrounded by a de-j tachment of the 57th regiment and a r company of the 66th did patrol duty.'g and maintained the outposts of the! t i B????Mpara??w??? sland. A semaphore station was on' nery hill am! when Napoleon went >ut for exercise his whereabouts were onstantlv signaled. Here in exile ho was left to Ins own Unices to amuse himself: there were 10 longer affairs of state callng for lis attention, there were no battles to >lan, no campaigns to project; in ll^UC UUWiri liit V 4> VO v l. S..IV V?v. vatchful Knjrlish wore hopeless. There vas not even that pretense of activity >y which ho interested himself in his oy principally of Elba. So his days level oped into a monotony i>f routine, ie rose early and either went for a torseback ride or besran to dictate' onie part of the history of his life to tlonthoion or Gourjruad. He break-' asted sometimes alone, sometimes vith his suite, between 10- and 11 'clock, road or dictated until 2 or o,; vhen he received such visitors as he, hose to admit. He then rode out,; ither on horseback or in his carriage or several hours, attended by his uite, then read or dictated again un-: il nearly 8, at which hour dinner was erved. j - * 11 i ilis dinner was simple, as were an; lis meals. A single glass of champagne or any strong wine, was sufii-; ient to call the blood to his cheeks.game of chess, or conversation, or a' Yench tragedy read aloud closed the vening. Hs onlv weakness was as ;reat fondness for snuff, he took | . :i. rPU? real Cjllcin L1 LI UI it. i nc uauno \f l i is life had taught him to need but: ittle sleep and to take this by starts, ' md usually someone read to him until! ar into the night. j ?' Napoleon was elaborately careful of; lis person. His dress at St. Helena, ?-as generally the same he had worn! ,t the Tullieres as emperor; the green! miform faced with red, or the chas-' i eurs of the jruard, with the star andj ordon ef the legoin of honor. His uite to the last continued to main-! ain around him, as far as possible inj xile, the style and circumstances of is former court. Visitors to t)ie island were more or^ ?ss frequent; the fallen Napoleon;, ,*as a source of curiosity to Europe1, hen. even as the ex-kaiser of Ger-j lany is to the world today. One 1^ raveler quoted in Lockhardt's life of;, iapoleon Bonaparte, describes the I. xile as follows: "broader and morei^ quare?larger, indeed, in every way', -than any representation I had met! ( rith. His corpulency, at this time;, eported to be excessive, was by no leans remarkable. His flesh looked . n the contrary, firm and muscular. . 'here was not the least trace i?f col- J; r in his cheeks; in fact his was more : is l-#* nrdirmrv flpsll. Not! ilia: civ. uk u v* #? _ ^ he smallest wrinkle was discernible! ( n his brow, not an approach to a fur-! ow on any part of his countenance, j lis health and spirits, judging fr >m; ppearance, were excellent, though t this period, it was generally be-1 eved in England that he was sinking;, ast under a complication of diseases I nd that his spirit was entirely gone.1 lis manner of speaking was rather; low than otherwise and perfectly (lis-! inct; and he waited with great pa-! ience and kindness for my answers] o his questons. The brilliant and j ometimes dazzling exprcsion of hisi ye could not be overlooked, it was j lot, however, a permanent lustre, for; t was only remarkable when he wasj xeited by some point of particular j nterest. It is impossible to imagine! n expression of more entire mildness' may almost call it benignity and. ;indness, than that which played over,1 lis features during the whole inter-! iew. If. therefore, he was at this; ime.out of health and in low spirit";.' is power of command must have ieen even more extraordinary than is J ;enerally supposed; for his whole do-i ortmcnt, his conversation and the 'Ynrrsion of his face, indeed a frame - * I n perfect health, and a mind in; ase." This interview was had in | ^.ujjust, 1817. About a year later his health besrnn o fail to an extort that his physi-! ian, who advised him that he must j ontinue his physical exercise which : ?f late he had dropped. Xrooleon leclared in answer that he would not ake any more exercise so long as he vas exposed to the challenge of Eng-1 and's sentinels of the islands as he tad been since his arrivel there. His >hysiciar? demurred at his patient's! bstinacy and Napoleon replied:; 'That which is written, is written;' ?ur days are reckoned." To all pro- j criptions he opposed a like determi-j lation. "Doctor," hi- said in October,; 820, "no physicking; we are a ma-j hine made to live: we are organizedj 'or that purpose, and such is our na-j ure; do not counteract the living; uinciple?let it alone?leave it t > he liberty of self-defense?it will do; K'tter than vour drugs. Our bodv is1 I i watch, intended to go a certain hue. -The watchmaker cannot opt n | t and must work at random. For >nce that he relieves or assists it by lis crooked instruments, he injures! t ten times, and at last destroys it."! The fatalist philosophy of the Ma- ! lommedan was Napoleon's; it was a; roverninj? principle in his life. With, he health of th" rx:lt? his spirit? sunk! also. Some lishes in a p??ti?I in the irarden at l.onjrwood had attracted hi? attention; something poisonous ha?i become mixed with the water, and the fish had sickened and died. "Kvervthin.tr 1 love," said Napoleon, "everytiling that belong to me?is stricken, Heaven and mankind unite to afiliet me." Perhaps in his melancholy lit dreamed of his wife, Marie Louise, and of his son. who wore not permitted to accompany him into exile; ami possibly of Josephine, whom in hi.o'erleapinir ambition to foumi a dynasty, he h;id cast oH*. Fits of lonj: silence and profound melancholy became more and more frequent; hi> friends in exile wi^h him were unable to cheer his flagging spirits. Thr P - 1 A Haunt nig memories 01 <>n:n .i-m splendid days gnawed at his soul even as the cancer that was sapping his physical being. "In those days," iie once said aloud in reverie, "in those days I was Napoleon. Now 1 am nothing?my strength, my faculties forsake me?1 no longer live, only exist.*' ' ' < .-! ..c l tie ftRfjiisn, ever caiTiui m nu-n jirisoner and his comfort, sought to obtain additional medical aid. Napoleon's persona! physcian, Dr. Antommarchi. who supplanted Dr. O'Meara because of the latter's suspected connection. with a plot to free the exile, was in constant attendance. But X poleon answered the urging of other medical men with "Quod scriptum scriptum; our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life be yo'ul what fate has predestined." He recognized the inevitable that was slowly closing about him as surely as his enemies had overcome him on the field of battle. From the loth to the 25th of April, 1821, he occupied himself with drawing up his will in which he bequeathed his orders and a specimen! of ev cry article in his wardrobe to his son. On the 18th he gave directions for the post mortem examination of his body ,"hich he desired held; and-ho :onsulted with the priest, Vijrnail, as to the manner in which he wished his body to be laid out. On the third .vf May it became evident that the scene ivas near its close. His friends would nave called in still further medical ?;.i Vvni /Inrod not. knowinir the 41 K, CI v v.v. - ^ exile's feelings upon the subject. 'Even ha<l he been speechless," said one of them, "we could net nave brooked his eye." The last sacraments of the church were now administered. He lingered thenceforward in a delirious stupor. On the 4th the island was swept by a tremendous storm; the 5th was likewise a day of tempest, and about (> o'clock in the Imviiiff cnnl-ni! nn!v evening ixapuitruii, *,...,. the words, "fete d'armee/' died. In his will Napoleon desired to be buried "on the banks of the Sione, among the French people. whom he had loved so well.*' But it was. not lo be for some years; political considerations made it impossible th;n and so he was buried among :-ome weeping willows beside a fountain in :i small valley on the isl m l of St. Helena. Nineteen years after the bo<ly \va;; removed to tlie massive tomb in I he Hotel des Invalidcs in Paris. The return was in the nature of a triumph rather than a funeral; it wa~ a hero come home to rest. Amid the t-ittertd battle flags of his day of glory, surrounded by the pomp of circumstances in which he knew life and which was denied in his exile and hi:hour of death his tonvh is the lonib of an emperor. Waster, wrecker, mere Jwninrrv lie mav have been, and oven so the supreme example of ambition, of succor^. an inspiration t<> mankind. Whatever and however lieis named, he was the little Corsicar. who shook the world. n( riianks Kditor The Herald and News, ?.Iy Dear Sir: Will you kindly grant mo sufficient space in your paper to express my deep gratitude and sincere thanks to the many irood people of your beautiful little vity their their kind and tender attentions to Miss Rose Eva Perry at Gl(> O'Xeall street during her last illness, death and funeral. She was very dear to me. and 1 feel that " 1 i - r what was done lor ner was none iui myself. One coming: (as I do) from or.e of the lanrer cities where brotherly love and sympathy for our fellow man is suc h a rare, jewel, can readily deteci the jrrandeur and beauty of its lavish expenditure pract>? d in the .-mallei towns. And nowhere have 1 .. .. ?? in.ivL-o/1 >; nr>vi< :n ("? IT SVt'Il II V iiuii nv vi ... Newberry. I trust that each one will reap their proper reward when their time conns to pass over the Great Divide, and I am quite sure we wil! foilow the example and teaching left us by this dear jzirl that we shall. When ' arrived from Charleston in response to a wire from her aim: staiinir lhat the end was near, ami walked into her bed chamber, the death anarel had already set his seal deeply upon her little brow. But she opened her larjre beautiful dark eyes and her lips wreathed in a br'srht fmile as she looked up at me. tried to >' iioM out ?u-r liiilf wca!. arm [ ; | \vhis;?i'i*i'(i: l>;i?loy. i*;n so ^i.sih I ; to >i'0 you. ' A !i?l friend?, : > my om* ! 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