The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-07

forever the extinction, not OF the Old
Guard only. but Of the empire and OF Ma
pOleon the Great There the traveller
from strange lands pauses, at the dis
lance OF eighty years from the horrible
cataclysm, and reflects with wonder how
within the memory OF living men human
nature could have been raised by the pas
sion Of battle 70 such sublime herOism as
that displayed in these wheat fields and
orchards where the Old Guard of France
sank into oblivion but rose to immortal
fame.
The rest may be briefly summarized.
Napoleon once more in Paris is obliged 20
abdicate without conditions. He becomes
a fugitive. on July 8 we see him az
ROchefort, on the western coast. he
would fain reach the United States; but
the English fleets control the Atlantic.
His mind is confused amid the wrecks
OF his destiny. lie changes his purpose
and throws himself on the generosity Of
England. He claims to be prisoner Of
war, and expects the treatment accorded
by international law to great captains
taken in battle. Vain expectation! He is
conveyed TO Torbay on July p. There arc
furious debates in the British Commons.
For what shall We do with him?
That, indeed. oh, Great Britain, is n
question. The worst. the most ungener-
Gus thing is done. He shall be banishel
On Oct. l6, 1915, the greatest military
leader. and In many respects the most re-
markable man who has appeared in the
world since the era of Christ, was de-
barked on his desolate island, that Pc
tite Isle with which he had concluded
his school exercises at Autun, thirty-six
years agoi
Napoleon was not only exiled; he was
imprisoned. St. Helena was his prison.
He was guarded. His masters watched
him with cruel surveillance for nearly
six years. Under their sleepless eyes he
dictated his Memoirs to Bertrand. con-
versed with his friends, or sought an hour
in solitude on the rocks near Longwood.
looking out to the sea. His health at
length gave way. Though his oonstitu-
ton was superb. there was an organic
malady, which came, as If from his IA
theirs grave, to destroy him. An ulcer OF
the stomach-symptOms of which had APP
peared at intervals for a decade-began
its ravages, and in few months he sank
away. 1t was on May 8. 1921. in the midst
of terrible tempest desolating the ISL
and, that Napoleon died.
They gave him grave under some will
low trees, by a fountain in Slanes valley.
There for nineteen years and a Half his
body lay, until a new generation, rising
from the shadows of revised Bourbon
ism, turned TO the hero who. at the be-
ginning Of the century, had made France
the nrst OF nations to him who had led
her armies to victory and built for her an
empire covering the better part of Eu-
rope. On Dec. 15 1910. the body of the EN-
peror Napoleon. under the care of the not
ungallant sons of Louis Philippe, was
brought back in state from the desolate
island of his exile and death The coffin
with the Great Dust in it was taken In
pomp and pageant unsurpassed through
the streets Of Paris. and deposited in the
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for times and a time under the magnih-
cent dome of the Invaldes. There he re-
poses; and the third republic guards him.
John Clark Ridpath.