The Only Man Living Who Saw Napoleon Buried

From the Chicago Tfmes-Herald: When a man has reached the ripe age oí 97 he has a pardonable pride in making a century run and a laudable ambition to end his days with an even record. As a general thing, however, the man or woman who reaches those advanced years has lost both the prlde and ambition. which make an effort at living on a possibility. This is not the case with one re6pected nonagerian who lives in Detroit, Mieh., and whose age is co-incidental with the year, he being born in 1800. Capt. Francis Martin, U. S. N., has lived along easily without any thougbt of perpetuating his days beyond the average record of man, until, having passed the ninetyseventh milestone, he looks not forward, but lives in the present or busies himself with memories - and Captain Martin's memories are worth much to their possessor. He is the only man now living who was at Napoleon Bonaparte's funeral on the lonely island oL St. Helena. He has sailed into nearly every navigable port on the face of the jlobe up to the year 1830. He was the friend of Audubon, the famous ornithologist. He fought pirates on the high seas in 1824. ' In 1836 he took part in the Seminóle Indian war. In 1832, after making a record as a master of sailing craft on both sides of the Atlantic, Capt. Martin entered the United States marine service, receiving his first commission from Andrew Jackson. In tlie following year he was stationed at Charleston, S. C, during the exciting time of nullifleation. He partlcipated in the Mexican war, his cutter being part of the blockading fleet cruising off the Mexican ports.