The Washington herald., 1914-10-18

GrenODles
March IL lsl5 Lyons SURRENDERED to him.
March ii isls Marshal Ney and his army went
over TO him.
N. q lus Napoleon arrived at Fontaine-
hlear and Louis XVIII lstt
oct %. luB Napoleon entered Paris.
TAPoLEoN'S return from Elba, in
M March, 1875. is the most adventur-
! GUS exploit in life of adventure.
Yet those who look upon all human
history as the prosaie story Of one long
warrant for contending that in escaping
from the island in marching on Paris, IN
reclaiming the crown Of France ana IN
fighting the battle Of Waterloo. he was
not inspired by love Of country OF glory
but was impelled by the fear Of hunger
and poverty; And what better authority i
sioner, Col Neil Campbell, who was sent
to watch the exile? In letter 70 hls
government three months peIofe Lne
ion that the Emperor would contentedly
pass the rest Of his life on the island II
ne reeetyed MS pension. put thst ma Eo,I1S y hs
probably take his troops and Cross over
to the mainland.
The Broken Treaty.
By the treaty Of FontainebIeau at the
time OF the abdication. Austria, Russia,
Sovereignty Of EIba and a yearly i1e
come al $4,000 from the French treas
ury, while his mother and his brothers
smonT sna sisfSTs themSeiTes SsTe sOoe year e re
duchies of Parma, Placentia, and GauAz
talia were pledged to Marie Louise, an4
descendants, ands a suitable provisfoE
was to be made for Prince Eugene
None Of lose promises was kept The
Vienna to divide the spoils OF their vic
tory, gave Eugene nothing, determined
that the son OF NaPoieoh snouia o. IN
even to live with her, and they left TIE.
Emperor without a cent Of the annuity
aIthough he Is supposed to have
brought with him from France nearly
$4,000. Napoleon began to feel the pinch
pressed the people for their taxes until
they riotously rebelled and he raked to-
gether all the useless old guns and
them for junk and where he also found
a market for some moldy flour which he
discovered in the commissaTiat
ing on with due bills on the French
treasury a feeling of homesickness
spread among ms tooPs 1 Pscone ane snidemic
and the army dwindled away from resig-
nations and desertions. And the soldiers
The Emperor had organized the little
army to defend his island against the
ever-present peril of the Barbary cor
regard ii as his only protection from as
sassination or deportation at the IN
stance Of the allied nations themselves.
Tal!yrand and Louis XVIII were
agreed that ne should be sent farther
away. to the Azores, perhaps, which
were some 500 miles out in the Atlantic,
or to St Lucia in the West Indies. His
Corsican enemy, Pozzo di Borgo, report
ed a unanimous sentiment among the
statesmen gathered in Vienna for his re,
moval from the eyes of Europe and
"as far as possible" PoZzo himself
thought st. Helena would be an excel
But when TaIleyrand declared, 1--WE
must hasten to get rid Of the man from
EIba,' Napoleon was left in doubt
fend % %hinISelf" "TtG from kidnapers or sssas-
sins. The choice really had narrowed
down. to abduction or assassination,
latter He knew that France was grow
ing restive under the reactionary policy
of the Bourbon rule which foreign armies
the army was filed with the spirit of re-
volt As he wrestled with his problem
in secret, he retired more and more
Col. Campbell. the British commits
sioner, was impressed with something
wild in his air: But Sut when me colonel
ing call before leaving for a brief ab-
sence in Italy, he found the Emperor
emily int interested in % nothing but the af-
fairs of his little empire, its roads and
bridges, and in his farm and gardens,
with their cabbages and onions and
Nevertheless Campbell had his misgiv-
ings, and he charged the captain Of
British war vessel 10 keep his eve on the
island But his suspicious were laughed
away in Florence. when you return TO
EIba," an inspired British under secre-
the commissioner, "yo1 may ten Bona
parte that he is quite forgotten in Eu-
rope. Nobody thinks Of him at all. He
never existed"
The Eagles Flight.
Meanwhile the Great Forgotten was di-
viding his attentions between the flower
beds at the Mulini and at Fort Stella,
which his soldiers were laboriously pre-
pairing, and the equipment of his leaky
little navy for mysterious ruse. Abso-
lutely no one else knew where or whith-
Nine Mere into the secret the day be-
fore the departure and received the
blessing Of that Spartan mother
The next day was Sunday and there
was levee at the Mulini, when the Eu-
peror astounded the company bv franl-
Y announcing that he should, quit Elba
in. no boat having been permitted to
leave or enter any Of the ports for two
days. Al The while the grsaaeiers con-
den. It was not until in the afternoon
that the drums beat to arms and an arrny
OF LOO men embarked for the conquest
brig Inconstant. of 800 tons and eiFhteen
guns: the lombard rEtoiie, Of so tons
and ave feluccas OF from 3 to 50 tons
each.
II was an enchanting evening, IN one
Of the most beautiful harbors OF all the
Mediterranean. The Emperor stood on
the quarterback. The town band played
the ''Marseillaise." The townspeople
cheered and the mayors tears fell upon
the dock. But there was not a breath
Of air for the sails Without a breeze
without a tide, the brig, the lombard,
and the feluccas lay for hours as idle
as painted ships on a painted harbor
waft him TO glory again or to make him
the Jest of the nations by imprisoning
him in the calm until the British COM
missioner should return
Not far from midnight however, the