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to tradesmen- that he would pay no debts
contracted bg. HIS wife.
But Francis Joseph evidently shrank
from publicly announcing that ms whe
had left his bed and board. he tired al
first TO bear his loss in silence When,
however. a man has been accustomed, for
a score of wears, TO the society and assist
ance of his wife, he finds it very difficult
10 live without her. We can easily under
stand how the Emperor found his break
fast badly cooked, and his dinner never
ready at the proper time. To be able to
smoke in the best parlorw poor COM
pensatiOn for the absence of buttons on
his shirts. Perhaps, in the first moments
of his freedom, he congratulated himself
that now he could read in bed without be-
ing urged to put the gas out and go TO
sleep like a sensible Emperor; but when
he failed TO find his night-shirt neatly laid
out for him, and searched in vain for his
dressiHg-gown and Slippers he felt the
mockerv offreedon1 at such cost. And
so it came 10 pass that one day the Empe-
rOr announced that he intended TO visit
England. OF course, he did not say that
he was going TO bring his wife back, but.
as soon as the London Times mentioned
his intention, every one knew what the
Emperor's real motive was, and scoffingly
declined to believe the poor pretense put
forth by his friends, that he was coming
to London merely TO see about taking out
new insurance policy on his house aud
| furniture in Vienna.
But no sooner did the Empress hear that
her husband was coming for her than she
hastily left her furnished cottage and came
! to London where she could always find a
] policeman within hail. Doubtless she TOOK
! pains TO inform the Emperor that If he at
tempted to speak to her she would nave
him arrested. AT all events, the unhappy
! Frances Joseph reconsidered his intention.
and still remains in Vienna, waiting in
vain for the return of his runaway wife.
What is the cause of the quarrel which
| has thus divided a once happy pair can, OF
! course. only be cOnjectured. The current
! impression in London and Vienna IS that
| the Empress has discovered some cause
! for jealousy, and has left her faithless htls-
band i'm a fit of anger. Still it must be adj
mitted that hitherto he has borne an eX-
cellent character, and that at his age he
would hardly 90 astray for the first time
from the paths of virtue. A more posi-
| BILE conjecture is that the two differed on
I the subject of the Beecher scandal. and that
sooner than Weld her belief in Mr.. Beech
er's innocence, or listen to her husbands
attempts to read Tilton and Moulton'
statements to her, the Empress has pre-,
ferred to temporarily leave him.
In any event, the flight of the Empires;
is a new proof that to be an Emperor i
not necessarily. to be happy. Francis
Joseph probably finds no solid satisfaction
in wearing his crown, now that his WIZ
is not present to admire him, and to say
i'm affectionate terms Tip it a little more
over your right ear, my dear" He is
solitary and miserable man, and whatever
NAV be his faults, we shall all sympathiz'
with him when he abandons his imperia
dignity and inserts in the Personal col
ume of the Times the touching lines
Return TO yeur own F.J. All shall b.
forgiven, and Mr.. BIS innocence admit
ted. "-Frarak Leslie'S Illustrated. NJ