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Show ! WHERE GREAT EMPEROR DIED -. i longwood, the Prison H outs of Napo i loon, Is Maintained Much as 1 J H Knew It '-. ' Longwood Old House, the prison f fcome of Napoleon, Is about four miles from Jamestown, the capital of St Helena. Dismally unattractive, the plate is In about the same condition that it was In the emperor's time. A low rambling one-storied farmhouse, once the dwelling of a peasant farmer j pt the Island, it Is hard to connect the ' place with the one-time master of the j Tulleries and Versailles. But Long-' wood has an air of romance and mys-tery mys-tery of Its own, for It was the death place of Napoleon. The house is badly lighted and ill Ventilated. The rooms are tiny and musty. The so-called billiard room coul never have held even the small-esfJ&ble small-esfJ&ble and the players at the same time. The reception room into which the emperor was moved when dying, is the pleasantest spot in the place, for It boasts of more than one window. It was in the space between the two windows win-dows that the death bed was placed. Here today Is a bust of the emperor. Visitors to Longwood sign the ancient visitors' book In this reception room, while the aged guide tells the story of (Napoleon's last days. ' Above the first floor are the garret rooms, little more than cubby holes, where former statesmen and marshals yOfrance lived during their exile with their master. Outside Is the tiny garden gar-den and the emperor's favorite arbor. Here Is the nshpool built by his own L ' hands. At the foot of the plateau Is Geranium valley,' and the emperor's tomb. It was by Napoleon's own re-; re-; quest that he was burled here. The I famous willow tree of fiction and hls- tory still shadows the emperor's tomb, j In 1858 Queen Victoria presented Longwood to Napoleon III, who restored re-stored the old place to the condition r in which the great. emperor knew it |
