The Washington herald., 1914-10-11

an understudy az once assumed the role
This mameluke was q Frenchman, to bt
sure. but he looked the part well enough
when properly arrayed and renamed Ali
An empire must, of course, have q mil
itary establishment An army Heuten
ant, although a prey TO violent seasick
ness, was the commander Of the heet
which consisted Of the flagship Incon
teen guns and sixty men; the Caroline
of one gun and sixteen men; the feluc
cas- Abeille and Mouche. each with eigh
men, and the xebec Etoile Of six gum
The foremost figure in the army wal
Cambronne, q gallant fire eater Of tn,
old guard, who declared that his ''uni
him hfr to n follow M NSpOieon4 % ArpiVinE Sn1ss q
Portoferraio with 700 Poles of the guard
some time after the empire had been sci
up, the veterans at sight Of the Emperor
''wept copiously into their mustaches, -
as the imperial chronicles record Once
the army was completely organized. II
consisted OF q Corsican battalion, the
Polish Lancers. mameluke contingent
and the Grenadiers and Chasseurs Of the
officers and men.
Not only did his veterans Of the guard
follow Napoleon to Elba, but his war
horses also came to eat their oats in
Punishment. There was the little white
arab Wagram, who paved his stall and
whtnnied for sugar whenever the man
whom he had borne to the conquest of
Vienna and the capture of a bride came
near. There were also bays and chest
nuts who, in Spain or Russia or Ger
many. had sped him down the hill from
the heights Of glory. A silvery Persian,
although a gift from the Gear, had
nevertheless returned to Russia as an
invading foe, and II was on his back
that Napoleon viewed Moscow from Spar
row Hill. On his back, too, he would
yet fight another battle-at Waterloo!
Other and less distinguished tenants OF
the imperial stable brought up the total
to more than 100 horses and mules, with
above twenty carriages and thirty at
tendants.
The Emperor on Tour.
Nor did the horses lack for exercise.
Imperial progresses were forever on the
schedule, and daily His Majesty in his
gold coach, with all brakes set and with
the postilIions cracking their whips even
while they leaned back on the reins,
coasted down the perpendicular streets
OF the capital, his grand marshal, his
military governor and his grooms GAL
looping at the wheels. He did not pause
until he had visited all the little ham
lets which, with rustic arches Of tri-
umph, with children scattering flowers
in the imperial pathway, with priests
chanting Te Deums, bravely tried to out
rival one another in honoring their SOW
ereign
The Emperor graciously made due al
lowance for the awkwardness of his un-
tutored courtiers, whose insular and pas
toral democracy never before had been
called upon to render homage to a crown
ed head. But when q militia sergeant
in an excess Of kindness and strength
too vigorously aided him to mount his
horse, which he ever found a diincult
feat. by seizing him bodily and pitching
him kicking and protesting into the sad-
die, he could not condone such conduct
on the part Of common soldier. In
stead Of furnishing the sergeant, however,
he adopted Gilbertian expedient and
promoted him to a lieutenancy, a rank
that somewhat excused the liberty he
had taken with the sacred person OF His
In the very first fortnight of his reign
he forts and the mines were inspected
most Of the mountains were ascended
and every mule path in the island was
-raversed by the Emperor, who left be-
hind him wherever he went his command
'or public improvements. When the
wagon roads left OF, he took to the sad
le pressed on afoot, walking under
Jroiiing sun for ten hours at a stretch
md working the flesh OF the bones of |
very one,' to quote again the chronicler |
II the empire. ~
When he had completed his exploration
4 EIba he sighed for more islands and |
allied away to the south. where he found |
he midget islet OF Pianosa, inhabited |
lllY DI VIII tuGEps AuHCAAuk II on /
he Instant he fitted out and dispatched |
colony with orders to fortify and cuiti-
ate It. In the same era Of expansion
he island Of Palmaiola also was annexed
md fortified.
In NapOIeOn's Garden.
Having surveyed and organized his en-
IRE, the Emperor next turned to. the \
rection Of his imperial palaces. To es-
ape from the little suite. up one flight /
n the City Hail. with its noisy square,
8 drumming and piping serenaders and
ne surface drainage that flowed by in
oorous rtvulets, he purchased a wind !
nnL a. the top OF the hill. There he
lrsSSeee rrom bis own plans his new
-ulleries, but In memory OF the demol-
'neeo mill h christened IL the Mulini.
Ine streets OF Portoferraio consist
nleny OF three steep stairways Up the
ort-crowned hight and several shelves
cross the lace OF the hill These stairs
re named via Napoleoue, via Victor
tugo and via Garibaidi their names
ecaliing three interesting and diverse 4
naracters: who at different times salled
ITO the little ElhAn World carihaldi