The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-10


ncrs and streamers from the windows,
battlements and spires of the city. Tho
revolution was complete
On quitting Grenoblc Napoleon dis.
missed his volunteer escort and advanced
rs before with the little bodyguard Of
Elba. The scenes were repeated at every
army post The Bourbons vainly attempt
ed to suppress the astounding tidingS ut
Paris Napuleon's known adhercnts were
arrested by wholesale. AT Lyons regular
soldiers and national guardsmon number
ing tens Of thousands were concentrated
with orders to crush Napoleon. Wine was
distributed freely in the name of the BOur
bon Louis XVIII, but the soldiery only
got merry on ii, and in their cups filed
/ the streets with cries Of Long live the
/ little CorporalP'
Even the personal bodyguard of the
commandant, composed of gentlemen
sworn to be true to him, gave way to the
enthusiasm and joined Napoleon's follow
ers. The guards at the bridges abandoned
their posts to a man; those stationed on
the street barricades tore away those oh
stluctions and hailed the dethroned EN-
peror as he rode along in triumph.
BY the time Napoleon had passed Lyons
the whole of France was in an uproar.
Towns and cities We'd with one another in
their zeal to pronounce for the man of des-
tiny. The Bourbon party summoned Ney,
Napoleon's old comrade, to join his corps
d'armes and arrest the march of the peace
full conqueror outside the walls of Paris.
Death itself would have been preferable,
| the hero declared, as he thought of Napo-
| Icons chivalric deed in Russia, when with
10, 900 sabcrs he rode against $4,000 to
rescue Ney from destruction He pleaded
with his soldiers, he pleaded with his off
GERS, but it was like sweeping back the
ocean with broom and ended in Ney's
proclaiming to his battalions: 1.-THE cause
of the Bourbons Is forever lost. Liberty Is
at last triumphant, aud Napoleon, our an
| gust emperor, is about to consolidate II
forever" Following the example SET by
NCy's corps, the populace seized all the
| war material within reach and sent it to
| Napoleon. The idea became current that
the royalists were plotting to assassinate
the emperor on the road to Paris. An
army of volunteers offered to hedge him
around with wall of living bodies. Be
fore proceeding he commanded his officers
to see to 1t that not single shot be fired
you will encounter none but French
men,, he said, land l will not have my
crown cost the French one drop of blood. "
Last came Paris the end of a 20 days
triumphal march through the heart of
Bourbon France. Crossing the Seine at a
gallop, his carriage dashed along the quay
to the Tuileries, where he was taken bodily
by mob of mobiles and courtiers and car
ried high above the heads of the crowd to
the imperial salon of the Louvre. A re
ception by the men and women distin-
guished in the court of the old empire
closed the enthusiastic demonstrations,
and all France was convulsed with tumul-
tuous JOY that Napoleon was again on the
throne Single handed he had invaded
and conquered a kingdom of 30, 000 600 OF
people. Then followed Waterloo, with its
Ill timed rainstorm and its dilatory Grou.
chy, and then-the lonely perch of st. Hell
ena. GEORGE l.. KILNfER.