Show AT NAPOLEONS GRAVE CAPT MARTIN OF DETROIT ATTENDED AT-TENDED TUB FUNEIIAL Itsall the ClrtamiUnrx Ultra irp of N MtyAs eMrThe Inctll eVi > ll > f kmtxl llfllff I hon Hi 0 1Ih ate Uu AITAIN THAXCI8 V a Martin U 8 N e whine home It I In r Cyis IMrolt Mich line rltCZNSt i enjoyed much local I I distinction I at one who wn present at the funeral ot Napoleon Na-poleon Humps on the Island of 8t Helena This rosy bo a strange sort of tame but there If I always a peculiar 1 Interest attached In tissue who hare Dome Into contact however remotely with the gcnlu that has fascinated a world An Illuitratlon ot this has bran founil In nn old graveyard nt TrAlerlekiuurg 1 Vn where these line are cngmted on n tombstone I Hero Lie I n Hearer of the Tall At the Funeral I I Of Shakespeare Captain Martin account of Ilona Tortes funeral and the tragic chinos stones surrounding which lent It alI al-I twlllsliment Is I graphic anl Interesting ni he remember the occasion n If It were lint yesterday when ho was a youth of twentyone Althnnih now In Isle ninthsixth year the captain la I a hale and hearty man hit only nlllctlon being n align losfn < M Ire resides with his family ooniUtliiit of a nlfe and daughter on Klr t Street when h < owns a charm Ing homo A great many pooiir call I In MO him but he la not nlwat a ni lions bit morning being ipont at Its t > public llbnrv where he rejdn the newspaper sail nugMlnes I we tr intuit enough to find him In hii ow n plMwnt readingroom his ngrionM wit hesldt him and bin pet pug Ito a on lilt knee Illslnrle of Nnpjloon surmounted by a bun uf the cm pi iur I wire on hU table and I felt no hcxl tasty In tasking known my crnnd with inch encouragement Toll me about the funeral of Napoleon Na-poleon I HId diiilnic bratcly Into 4 my nuNJecL 8hlp 1 ahojl 1 Mid 1 the captain t making hit hand Into H stinking trumpet t trum-pet anti he launched Into hli story nt once I wa blown to the Island ot 8t Helens and kopt there by inch n Bale ni you never HW for the windblown wind-blown great gun In tholll latitude I atns only n boy then Just turned 21 1 and the Il4lcon1 male of the friendship nn Aintrlcan vessel bound from JaIl I to Itotltrdtm We stopped at the la I land ot SI Helena for wood and water It being H common stopping place for teeel4 Mlllng that way The Kngllah owned the Inland nnd no run up the I CAlT FRANCIS MARTIN U 8 X American flag and were hailed by the iuKllih sloop ot war the Itosalle and ordered not to coma any nearer anti to state our wished Wo were toll to get n permit from the Vlgo a fountfour pounder oa they call this minnfnar i ot that dlmontlani You ere It was not I state to admit strangers to the prison of Napoleon I even when the captive was Ual lietore I forget I mint till son the name of thin commander of Iho sloop of war Howllo lie tea Cnptalu Marrjat tho famous novelist whose nautical stories are such favorites with tbe boy Thore had been a great norm J on May 8 the day before we reached thus island and the wind was till blowIng blow-Ing such a gala that while Captain Williams of thus 1rtendihlp nnd nitolf were on here the vof l had to put to h sea to prevent being ground to piece agalnil the Conqueror a man ofwar anchored In the harbor Bo pots ire It wets quito by accident happened > to attend at-tend the funeral of the emperor All In I our service wero lorry for the unhappy ate ot tho brave frenchman and belIeved be-lIeved thAt ho thauld hate been a prisoner of I war and not a capthr I exiled ex-iled under lucli cruel condition I joined t the little compxiy of hand h-and limllth lolJItn who had gathcrnl at the spot which Napoleon himself had Mlected for bli crave under the nhade of a willow and listened with rever core to the prayer rend In nn unknown un-known tongue tho whole scene making r mak-ing the grate Imlre lon upon my jouUifiil mind I remember that men and women well at Napoleon funeral I fun-eral Tho men wero loll Trench soldier I sol-dier and among the women was Mme fl Iltrtrand hU last nurte and the nlret I of Mme RnslUh officer who recog nlied his claim on their sympathies at the lat moment There WM much ot f military pomp and splendor at the services or It iihwarml such to American Ameri-can eyes ot that perlol Mounted aol dlr n company of grenadier and the 1 I emperor own attach WHO all pests enl In full uniform A milltry cloak I F 1 that I wan toll I he hull I coin at MarentM win spread I oter hit bier The firing of cannon wits Incessant five round being discharged every minute The Kngllsh troop could not conceal their Joy at This ending of Xapoleuna rap thlly fur It aMiircd their return home from a prolrarted stay In an unhealthy place Whn the troops left the grate After firing over lithe ruttomtr three volleys the tniiilc lutantly changed from It dirge to a quickstep characteristic character-istic of the feeling of relief among the Island population I Is I It Mirprlflng that the scene on that lonely prison site made a pernmnent Imprenlnn on my youthful memory or that I always II oelate myself with the event I tell hall over the iinfortnnate emperor final home coming to hi beloted Trnnew My 1 unit wan In 1arl and attended at-tended the ceremonies of the second burial lull I do not hellete that In all their pomp coil magnificence they I equaled In grandeur that lonely Island ceremony whloli gave him Isle first renting place I thmuht then and I think now concluded the veteran tint ItUMln would hate been kinder to Napoleon na a prisoner than Knghnd Sir Unison Uni-son IHIRII prripculed n ronqueriHl enemy and hula drain nan hastened by personal cruelty |