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ST. HELENA FITTED FOR -

ISLAND PRISON.“

WOULD WELCOME EX- KAISER.

"St. Helena, the island whose speciality is the entertainment of deposed monarchs, has good economic reasons for its reported desire to have the ex-Kaiser for a prisoner," says a bulletin from the National Geographic Society's Washington headquarters.

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"Napoleon was its most famous and best paying guest, though got the only one. Dinizulu,” a Zula king WBS recent exile; sent there after he led a rebellion against the British in 1889. While Napoleon was at St. Helena, profiteering, at the expense of the Bonaparte | household and the numerous i members of the garrison sent to guard him was reduced to a fine art by the island citizens.

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"In fact it was the high cost of St. "Helena living which created part of the friction be- tween Napoleon and the British Governor of the island, Sir Hudson Lowe, Instead of living with- in the £8,000 allowed for mainten- ance of Bonaparte and the balf hundred members of his entourage the bills for a year mounted to three times that sum. Upon complaint of the Governor, which *Napoleon resented,

the monarch executed a 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 popular, that further remonstrances were not made. -Napoleon's wants were few." His principal luxury was books: his diversions chess playing and digging in his garde. Like, the former Kaiser, he spent many hours with the Bible. He pro- fessed no piety, however. frankly admitting that he was making a study of certain Old Testament books to show that monarchies had divine sanction. and he also spoke of wanting to write a monograph on "The Campaigns of Moses.

"Since St. Helena is some 700 miles from the nearest land. Ascension Island, and 1,200 miles from the nearest African port. the extreme precautions taken by Lowe to prevent the escape of the man who once had ruled half of Europe created consider. able amusement. Sir Hudson was greatly disturbed" one day!to End a newly arrived Corsican priest riding horse-back in a coat similar to Napleon's, believ ing the compatriot was involved in a plot to deceive the guards. The French commissioner com- plained that the sight of a passing dog was enough to induce the Governor to plant a new sentinel on the spot: but perhaps the most extreme of the many amusing stories of Lowe's solicitede was the occasion of his protest against Napoleon's planting some white and green beans, sens- jag in this combination of

colors a subtle allusion to the white flag of the Bourbons and the distinctive green uniform of the general.#t

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Living almost wholly within and his garden, Napoleon insisted on all the pomp and ceremony possible in such cramped quarters. Since his com- panions 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 bared 'with court life in a shanty involv ing all the burdens, without any of the splendors, of a palace.'

At first the exile rode horse- back, but soon abandoned that rather than have an English guard along. His seclusion is best attested by the fact that for five or six years' stay he did not exchange a word with the Gover-- nor, and of the three commission- ers--Russian, Austrian and French-sojourning there by the provisions of a treaty to assure themselves of his presence one saw him through a telescope orice, a second looked into his face for the first time when he was to be buried and the third saw him not at all.

"Napoleon's days at St. Helena were not wholly devoted to kill- ing time. He dictated his voluminous memoirs and military commentaries while a number of his associates later added to these diaries, conversations and me- moirs of their own, inaccurate or doliberately misleading in large part. Now this activity would be called ...propaganda, It was bigbly effective propa- ganda, too. Though Napoleon's escape was prevented by vigilance to an absurd degree, and though the effect of his winning person ality was guarded against by for - bidding visitors to see him, his writings and those pl Mentholón and Lai Cares respited in the

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royalistic flareback' that put his settled by British, Dutch and nephew on the throne of France. Portuguese. In the days of sailing It was to Napoleon III that Queen vessels and before the Suez Canal Victorias presented Longwood, was opened the Islanders thrived where Napoleon lived and died by providing supplies for passing while at St. Helen.

vessels. With the passing of this "Geographically St. Helena is market for their meats and peculiarly fitted for an island vegetables the island's principal prison. Its volcanic formation industries waned and the inhabit- accounts for a half circle of ants dwindled until there are mountains which permit only one now only about 3,500 persons, as landing place, that at the island's compared with twice that many single port and city, Jamestown residents thirty years ago. The Uninhabited when discovered island belongs to Great Britain ten years after Columbus sailed and ja, administered directly by for America, the island was the crown.”

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