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than in anger-and Maximillian took
it up and wore it royalty enough, 1 be-

Lola Montez, or Madame the COun-
tess of Landsfeldt, whose unveracity
has never been impeached, said that
her prosecutions resulted from her hav-
ing advocated reforms, political and re-
ligious, which reused against her the
Jesuits, that immortal and ubiquitous
society, which has borne so much kill
ing, and SO thrives on prescription
The Priests, she said, set on the stu
dents, an ungallant set of German Doors,
who quarrelled with her dogs and did
not take horse-whipping meekly. Ger
tain it is that she was compelled to
leave Munich without much time for
packing; but perhaps she went not al
together unwillingly: the dull life of a
small German capital must have bored
her immensely, and she was evidently
not meant for San old mans darling"
If remember rightly, the next the
world heard of her was piece of piq-
uaft domestic scandal. She had some
wnere caught in her toiIs-those SUPPLE
tolls, seemingly light and silvery as Cos
samer, yet in reality as strong as steel,
and as tenacious as graphing irons-a
wealthy and Well-borne young Eng
lishman, and married him. He was un-
der age and of weak intellect, and as it
was presumed that he had given HIM
self in marriage under the spell Of the
evil eye IA pair of them, if not under
actual bodily fear, his friends resolved
to rescue him, and separate the ill
matched couple. Then followed that IA
nous pursuit over the continent, from
city to city, Lola Montez always keep
ing little ahead, having in close Gus
tody her terrified and submissive vic
tim. A pretty chase she led them, but
they overlook her, or intercepted her,
at last-her husband went over to the
enemy, who bore him off in triumph.
Then there was trial. The law vindi-
Gated injured male innocence, wealth
and respectability, and divorced the
poor younggentleman-the mere wreck
of himself, his friends said, but it is to
be hoped he was brought round again,
on toast and wine-Whey, and ripened
at last into an average Briton of the
"swelI' type, which Leech SO delight
ed to picture.
1t was well for poor Lola that all this
did not happen century earlier. Her
judges would then haveshut their eyes,
and condemned her to hanging or
as witch. She was now
afoatagain, and, like all floating things,
she naturally drifted to America.
On the same steamer with the Ex-
Governor of Hungary, came the Ex-
dictatress of Bavaria. It was noticed
that she tried her destinations on the
great Magyar, but without avail. She
daily sat near him on deck, looking
charming, even in her sea-raps, gazing
over the waves and pen
sively smoking cigarette. And he
too smoked, and dreamed, and remem-
bered, and hoped;- but his cigar was
the sedative of brain overwrought by
grand schemes and great thoughts
dreams were noble, his memories sol
emn, his hopes beneficent, and if he
needed that woman of unwomanly
ways, it was to give thought of pity
to the restless heart and the wasted
life.
The theatrical career of Lola Montez
in the States was not brilliant nor pro-
longed. Few wished to see her more
than nce,-she fitted from city to city,
doing some very generous things, let
it be remembered of showing es-
pecial kindness towards children, who
were in sorrow and in need. Then
signing, like him of Macedon, for new
world to conquer, she fitted to Califor-
MIA, where she saw life under a thous-
and new aspects, each one wilder than
the last. She flung herself, with reck-
less abandon, with what seemed pure,
Irish deviltry, into that rough, adven-
turous life, unsubdued, unterrified, in
corrigible, under some very hard expe-
riences. Strange stories of her eccen-
tricities, her crazy freaks, her desper-
ate, daring ways, came to US and made
us laugh, yet shudder while we laugh
ed. She tanned bears, rode en- cavalier,
shot at and horsewhipped her
enemies, flung about her money, and
right and left. She seemed to
have mania for marrying and being
divorced, for falling in love and fight
ing her way out-poor mad little sin
ner!
At length, broken in health if not in
spirit, she returned to the Atlantic
States, and began new career, as a lee
turer. Her lectures were fimsy, patch
ed up affairs, and of questionable NOR
al tone. They were probably not writ
ten altogether by herself-yet 1 should
say she could have produced something
better, if less ambitious, had she given
naturally and simply, recollections of
the strange countries and peoples she
had seen. Though not a well educated
woman, her conversation was said to
be singularly sparkling and racy. Yet
the flash and sweep of her magnificent
eyes and the bewitching fall of her lus-
irons dark hair went far with the pen-