The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

This lone isle of the sea is again
coming into prominence.
Why?
There are thousand, yea, perhaps,
a million islands scattered in the va
rious oceans of the world no larger,
and just as solitary and dismal, SO
why at this particular time is so much
being said about ST. Helena?
1t is needless to say that it is be-
cause it was the prison house of the
restless man of Europe" and may
likely add to it's fame by again giving
lonesome shelter to one who is en-
deavoring to walk in his footsteps.
1t has not been quite one hundred
years since Napoleon was told that
st. Helena should be his living tomb.
To be exact, it was on the 31st day
of July, 1915.
The 31st day of July, 1915-history
may repeat itself. There may be con-
veyed to the present "War Lord" of
Germany the same unwelcome mes
sage that was conveyed to the great
French emperor one hundred years
before.
Notwithstanding so many protests
and apologies to the contrary the civ
ilized world is holding the German
emperor responsible for the present
awful conflict and carnage, and the al
lied powers may demand, and the
world will acquiesce in the verdict,
that his living sepurcher shall be the
same as the great Napoleon's.
History seems to run right along
in parallel lines. There is not much
difference in the ages of the two men.
The German emperor is now about the
age of the French emperor when he
died.
Napoleon was forty-six-now re-
garded as the very prime of life
when he was exiled to this lonely hab-
itation. He spent six long and weary
years there. What were his suffer
ings and tortures no man can tell
They must have been most acute and
remorseful. One can imagine it to
have been a long, protracted, hideous
nightmare.
When he was told that Admiral Sir
George Cockburn was ready to receive
him on board his vessel and convey
him to st. Helena, Napoleon exclaim-
ed with animation: mo, no; l will
not go there! 1 prefer death in this
PLACED"
| In a private conversation with Cap
tain Maitland, he said: THE idea is
perfect horror to me. To be placed
for life on an island within the trop-
| les, at an immense distance from any
land, cut off from all communication
with the world, and everything hold
dear to it, is worse than Tamerlane's
iron cage. l would prefer being given
up to the Bourbons!"
But the great mans protests were
in vain, and he was conveyed thither.
There were no telegraphs nor tele-
phones nor cables in those days, and
for six long years he was almost alone
with himself
VIII similar punishment be meted
out to the present German War
Lord?"
We have the highest admiration for
the German people. They merit the
highest encomiums. Occupying a ter
ritory smaller than Texas up to the
time of the Franco-German war, and
but little larger since that time,
they have builded an empire that has
put Germany in the front rank of ma
| tons.
! Entering into competition with the
greatest nations of the earth in less
than half century she has almost
made conquest of the trade of the
world, and the present war has shown
how dependent other nations are upon
her.
Ii she could have eliminated the
war spirit and devoted her immortal
energies only to peaceful employ