Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1860-01-19
miscellaneous.
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] RernadOtte IN Love.

& BeFnadOtte In Love-
AT the period when the States of Gre
noble assembled at the Chateau de Will
le, were preparing the revelation of 1889
Bernadotte, then a sergeant, was quarter
ed in the town. Little dreaming Of his
future eminence, he passed his time be-
tween his military duties, In cards and gall
lantry. He had obtained considerable
reputation am0ag his comrades for his
success in the latter. art and made it a
point of honor to sustain it.. .Anopportu-
nifty presented itself on the famous day
Of the ''tiles."o On that day, as is well
known, the women Of Grenoble, mounted
on the roofs of their houses and assailed
the royal troops with q shower Of tiles.
Bernadotte, being engaged with his reg
iment in Rue Pertbisiere, was struck on
the head by one of those proiectiles, and
fell He was at first thought to be dead,
but manifesting some symptoms Of life,
he was conveyed into neighboring cafe,
and laid upon the table, which is still
preserved and shown. He was not, how
ever, destined to the fate of Pyrrhus.-
By degrees he began to recover, and, on
opening his eyes, he saw-among the crowd
who were rendering assistance, a falr
young girl whose bright blue eyes were
| sufused with tears, and whose emotion
was manifested at the pain he appeared
to suffer. He raised himself on his ell
bow, and, gazing at her. atteniveIy, be
seemed struck with her beauty. After a
little time, finding himself better, he cal
led for glass of brandy, and rejoined
his regiment ;I L.., -sg
Quiet being established at Grenoble,
Bernadotte left no means unimployed to
discover the fair unknown For three
weeks he continued his romantic search,
when, one day, while pensively walking
in the Jardin de Vile, he saw her ap-
preaching. He watched her home, and
returning the next day, found the means
of obtaining access to her house, and de-
claring his love. The girls name was
Amelie; She was a dress-maker, and
about eighteen years of age; but there
was a rival IN the ield-a young watch
maker of the town. Not knowing how
to dispose of him, and, moreover, being
violently in lore, Bernadotte spoke of
marriage, thinking by that means to over
come all difficulties. But he failed.
Amelie loved neither the citizen nor
the hero; but the first was a watch-ma-
ker, and the other nothing at all-not
even king of Sweden, She epreferred
the shop to the haversack, and became
the fance of the matchmaker. When
Bernadotte heard her decision, his fury
knew no bounds. He rushed to the
house of his rival, and declared his love,
and his pretensions to the hand of Anne
lie, and challenged his rival to decide the
question by the sword. The watch-mak-
er was nothing 10th, and the parties met.
The citizen, little accustomed to the use
of the weapon, was soon severely wound
ded, and Bernadotte fastened to the house
Of the lady. He had been there but
few minutes, and had even forgotten the
occurrence which had just taken place,
when loud knocking was heard at the
| door. 1t was from the wounded lover of
Amelie, brought thither apparently in a
dying state. She was overwhelmed with
grief and horror, ami turning to Berna-
dotte, loaded him with the severest re-
proaches. and drove him from the house
He saw ner for the lasttime. In month
she had became the wife of the watch
maker. Bernadotte, when he heard it,
determined first to shoot her, then to mur-
der her husband, and finally to blow out
his own brains. Fortunately for his fu-
ture crown he did neither.
The blue-eyed heroine of this adven-
ture-now alive, decrepid, crooked,
wrinkled old woman, a servant at a COM
mon inn, and in state Of abject poverty
related the circumstance many years
afterwards. "Ah, sir" said she, in con-
Guiding her story, 81 should; have done
better if / had married Bernadotte-I
should have been Queen now sir YES
a Queen, instead of waiting upon every
body here! I should have had court
and subjects, and fine clothes-I should
have been a Queen! All! I made a great
mistake-a sad mistake fought to have
foreseen this, for, l assure you, sir, Mon
sieur Bernadotte was nota common man,
| had a kind of presentiment that some
thing would happen-but what would you
have? When we are young we do not re-
feet; we are ambitious; we erefnse king
doms, and make fools Of ourselves p'-
saying which she shed tears.
When asked whether she had ever
heard ANYTHING from him, she answered,
"Never, sir; I have written to him sew
eral times since be became a king, bat
he has never returned any answer. My
husband says it is because l did not frank
my letters. It is very likely; and then,
perhaps, he may still feel annoyed at my
refusal. If we were both free again,
and had any money Iwould go to Swee-
den. Perhaps he would marry me, or at
any rate give me his linnen to mend. That
would be something, after all. %
From a diadem to a darn Could Love
himself ever have conceived anything so
romantic .aou
| A Mr.. Peters sends a roll of butter