Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-11-25
Napoleon First In 1910.

Napoleon died on the 9th OF NAV, 1921
The man who made that strangely Minute
record of transactions, even of The minutes
that proceeded his decease, was afterwards
a guest of the enthusiastic hospitalilies Of
the Frenchmen of New Orleans. He did
not live TO see the test of his work of the
embalment of the Emperor. Dying in
1889, he passed away the year previous to
that strange day when Napoleon was again
made visible to mortal eye, and friend and
follower started back as the cerement was
unrolled from The face which had seemed
passed forever into The graves oblivion.
Nineteen wears and Ave months had gone.
The Napoleon family, considered as relic
of wild storm in government, were scat
tered over the earth. Louis Philippe
deemed it policy to court the o.d sentiment
of the Nation by associatng the action of
powerless Emperor. lie did not realize
that when he brought Napoleo to France.
& to the banks of the Seine. among the
French people have loved as the will
and wish of the Imperial Exile plaintlsely
expressed, he was building deep and strong
the basis on which the lever of new and
grander Revolution should he PLACED.
At midnight, on the 18th of October,
1910, the exhumaton commenced. The
Ninety.first English Regiment stood around
the grave. There was q labor of nine hours
before it became possible to lift from the
tomb the enormous stone which covered IT.
They who built that grave, built II tor en-
durance. In their ideas, The scenes OF st.
Helena had exhausted the influence of the
name, and they determined faithfully TO pre-
serve to the Island the trust, in whose keep
ing the name of this little mil-ocean crag
had become world of history,
There were prayers offered when the cot-
fin was attained, and when this recognition
of the Power that rules the living and the
dead were made, one ly one, The encasing
metals were removed, and AT last the inner
one was opened. Then the Napoleon OF
the past was once more seen, and seen lis 1t
upon his bed. The form, the features we're
revealed beneath the white lining, and there
was such n recognition as shall never again
meet mortal eye.
But the quick eye of tho camazed specta-
Tors detected Immediately that one hand, il
was rs white as in the day of its living
/ beautv, was raised out Of the fixed attitude
of the dead. There was that sudden thought
of horror in this. iIal he lived and breath
ed and moved after the moment when the
curtain of the coiiin-lid fell upon lIih
I Those who have ever felt the intensity o!
such doubt Gt is but the creation OF a
4 gloomy fancyl can realize what thrilled tina:
I sroTp of men.
All. sad General Bertrand, do YOU not
remember that after we had arrmged hi-
limbs. and lust beFre we left him, raised
! that hand to kiss il
The decay of time had dimmed the or
naments. except that the Cross Of the Le-
zion of Honor was bright. A similar inci-
dent. Ii Is said, attended the catumatioa OF
/ Lord Stirling. ut Albany. where a silver
/ decoration he had worn elittered amidst the
! dust of the coffin.
/ One soldier had never left the tomb
/ Faithfully since the dav of 1921, he had
/ kent his watch and ward. He was indeed
the Oh Guard who never i, serted his En-
teror. and when he was first of all. allowed
TO land ON the arrival in France. he was
met and embraced by the Generals, who
thought II honor thus to receive the un-
swerving friend.
Since then the Queen Of England has, in
the truthful oblcncss of her character, and
in the faithfuness of the recompences that
time gives TO History. visited lis tomb.
/ Time has not vet woven, FAST as ITS shut
tie plies. the veil thick enough 10 hide from
/ us the minute incidents of such wonderful
events. Still for us. the word Napoleon i.
one of actual Emaire. Less in Territorial
power than before, bnt in moral strength
imneasureai,ly greater. The f,rnily Of the
/ CersIcan is in the chronicles of Crowns,
and he now bears the mime, clusters around
[ il the associations Of science and civiiiza-
ton farsi. and OF war only as n chapter closed
almost as suddenly rs commenccd.--N 4
Courier and Enquirer.
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