Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-24
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Hudson was greatly disturbed one day
to find newly arrived Corsican priest
riding horseback in a coat similar to
Napoleon's. believing the compatriot in
vowed IN plot to deceive the guards.
i Protested Planting Beans
The French commissioner complain
ed that the sight of passing dog was
enough to induce the governor to plant
u new sentinel on the spot but perbaps
.he most extreme of the many anus
ing stories of loves solicitude was the
occasion Of his protest against Napo-
,eoh planting some white and green
Deans, sensing in this combination of
coiors a subtle allusion to the white
nag OF the Bourbons and the distinctive
green uniform of general.
Living almost wholly within two
rooms and his garden, Napoleon insist
eu on all the pomp and ceremony DOS
sipie IN such cramped quarters. Since
nls companions necessarily were much
IN MS presence his insistence upon their
stahaing sometimes brought them to the
point OF fainting. None might speak
unless spoken to and az became ex-
tremely bored with court life in
shanty involving all the burdens, with
out any of the splendors, of palace.
AT first the exile rode horseback but
soon abandoned that rather than have
an English guard along. His seclusion
is best attested by the fact that for
hVe of his six years stay he did NOT
exchange word with the governor.
and of the three mmissioners.-Rns
sian, Austrian and French-soiournin.
mere Dy the provisions of treaty TO
assure themselves of his presence one
suw nun through a telescope once, a
second looked into his face for the first
time when he was to be buried and
the third saw him not at all.
FITTED for Island Prison
"Napoleon's days at st. Helena were
not wholly devoted to killing time. He
dictated his voluminous memoirs and
niilitary m commentaries, while a number
VI MS associates later added to these
uiafles conversations and memoirs OF
'ne,r own, inaccurate or deliberately
misleading in large part, Now this ac-
tNlty would be called propaganda. 1T
wa was highly effective propaganda, too.
lhoush NapoleOn's escape was prevent
ed by vigilance to an absurd degree. and
though the effect of his winning ner-
sonality was guarded against by for
oldding visitors to see him, his writings
and those of Montholon and Las Cases
resulted in the royalistic 'hareback'
that put his nephew on the throne Of
France. 1t was to Napoleon III TINT
Queen Victoria presented Longwood,'
where Napoleon lived and died while at
st. Helena.
Geographically, ST. Helena is pecu-
harly fitted for an island prison. It's
volcanic formation accounts for a half
circle, of mountains which permit only.
one landing Dlace--that ut the islands
single port, Jamestown. Uninhabited
when discovered ten years after Co
lumbus sailed for America, the island
was settled by British, Dutch and Por-
tuguese. In the days of sailing yes-
sells and before the Suez canal wa.
opened the islanders thriyed by provjd-
ing supplies for passing vessels. with
the passing of this market for their
meats and vegetables the islands prin-
! cipal industries waned and the inbab.
itants dwindled until there are now only
about 5000 persons, as compared with
twice that many residents thirty wears
4 ago. The island belongs 10 GsciF Brif-.
ain and Is administered directly byf tbo
I Crown. fHN4I