Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-22
IN THE DAYS NEWS
St. Helena

"St. Helena. the island whose special | ty is the entertainment of deposed monarchs, has good economic reasons for it's reported desire to have the kaiser for a prisoner, says a bulletin from the National Geographic So- cietv's Washington headquarters. Napoleon was it's most famous and best paying guest though not the only one. Dinizulu, a Zulu king. was a more recent exile; sent there after he led a rebellion against the British during the Transvaal in 1889. While Napoleon was a St. Helena, profitser- ing at the expense of the Bonaparte household and the numerous members of the garrison sent to guard him, was reduced to a fine art by the island cit izens.
 ''In fact it was the high cost of St. Helena living which created part of the friction between Napoleon and the British governor of the island. Sir Hudson Lowe. Instead of living with in the 5000 pounds sterling allowed for maintenance of Bonaparte and the half hundred members of his entour- age the bills for a year mounted to three times that sum. Upon complaint of the governor which Napoleon re- scented. the ex-monarch executed bit of play to the galleries by ordering his silver sold and his bed broken up for wood, which, when reported in England, created so much criticism of the governor, already none too popu- lar, that further remonstrances were not made.
 tNapoleon's wants were few. His principal luxury was books; his diver sions chess playing and digging in his garden. Like the former kaiser, he spent many hours with the Bible. He professed no piety. however, frankly admitting that he was making a study of certain Old Testament books to show that monarchs had divine sane tion, and he also spoke of wanting to write a monograph on "The Cam paigns of Noses
 Since St. Helena is some 1000 miles from the nearest land, Ascension is- land, and 1900 miles from the nearest African port. the extreme precautions taken by Lowe to prevent the escape of the man who once ruled half of Europe, created considerable amuse- ment. Sir Hudson was greatly dis turbed one day to find newly arrived Corsican priest riding horseback in a coat similar to Napoleon's. believing the compatriot involved in a plot to deceive the guards The French com missioner complained that the sight of passing dog was enough to induce the governor to plant a new sentinel on the spot; but perhaps the most ex- treme of the many amusing stories of Lowe's solicitude was the occasion of his protest against Napoleon's plant ing some white and green beans. sens ing in this combination of colors subtle alIusion to the white flag of the Bourbons and the distinctive green ur,- form of the general.
 Living almost wholly within two rooms and his garden, Napoleon in sisted all the pomp and ceremony possible in such eramped quarters Since his companions necessarily were much in his presence his insistence upon their standing sometimes brought them to the point of fainting. None might speak unless spoken to and all became extremely bored with court life in shanty involving all the bur dens. without any of the splendor ef a palace.
 At first the exile rode horseback. but soon abandoned that rather than have an English guard along. His se- clusion is best attested by the fact that for five of his stx years stay he