Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-05
Louis and Beatri..

Inc Empress mas Two more great
trials before her-the funeral of her ron
and the interview with Prince N.noleon
and then her active concern in life
will be over. and she will probably re-
tire from the world. There il some
talk Of sending her for rest and change
Of scene to Hungary. but all I hear
convinces me that her final stage ia a
convent. She talks of this persistently.
and there is no turning her Thoughts
from it. 1t would be the best thing for
her; the spring OF her mind seems to
be utterly gone, and her conduct is
markedly the strangest inconsistencies
Her normal state is one Of prostration,
varied by occasional outbursts of wrath.
full energy that some about her mistake
for signs Of recovered strength. The
outside public, on the contrary, believe
enormously that her state is all pros.
tration. When some of her sons old
comrades called on her the other day to
express their condolences she broke
down in the delivery of Q little. set
speech which Lhad been prepared for
her, with sob that went straight to
their hearts. 1t is only in speaking of
Prince Napoleon, the new heir as some
call him, that she shows the energy of
other feelings. She has hated and de.
spised this man ever since she knew
him, aud now she sees him ready to
step into her sons shoes. The surest
way to her favor when she reigned at
the Tuileries was to say some good
thing at his expense. If it turned on
his cowardice all the better, because
that is the reproach most fatal in
France. She was not particular; she
would stand things in his dispraise that
might have brought blush to the
cheek of an old person in any other
capital and expulsion for the author in
any other court. have half q mind to
give you one of the best of them, but
suppose it would not do. He recipro-
Gated this feeling and almost repaid her
in her own coin. He spoke freely of
her failings of temper and Judgment to
every one. He was interviewed some
years ago by friend of mine in Lon.
don, and he made no scruple about
representing her as the jealous tyrant
of the Emperor in his old age. At
Chiselhurst, it appeared, the Emperor's
favorite amusement was to look at his
insignia of orders of foreign knighthood,
which reminded him OF his past great
ness. When he offended her she
locked the orders up--in feet, deprived
the baby of his toy. Itseems incred able,
and the only thing about it know to
be true, is that Prince Napoleon said it.
He succeeds to a barren heritage, but
all the same he succeeds, and it must
be gall and NORWOOD to her to have
to welcome him in his new character.
This will be the next sharpest trial to
the death of her son.
Minor trials are not wanting. A mys-
FERROUS lady in mourning has been
haunting the gates of Chiselhurst, and
it is said-cannot you imagine what
would be said, or at least what might
be, about such an incident? The EN-
press has refused to see her, even Mr..
Goddard, the Catholic priest in the
confidence of the family, has declined
O second interview after having heard
her at some length in first. She is
always asking to see the Empress, and
there she stays all day among the
crowd at the lodge gate waiting for her
chance. She is well-dressed, ladylike
in manner, and, as we'll as can be seen
through thick veil, fair.complexioned
and not ill-favored. It is quite posi-
BILE that she may be but one of those
harmless zealots of the feeling of the
hour whom every great public event
produces, but the chroniqueurs will
naturally have more. One of them
undertakes to tell us all about it-she
is the late Prince Imperials widow!
There was an adventure in his life, for
all its outward correctness. He made
runaway match with blonde An
glaise or German-I am quoting, not
inventing on my own accountant on
going to the Cape. solemnly. confded'her
to the care of clergyman at Bath. The
clergyman had no idea of the rank of
the husband; he had simply made the
acquaintance of the couple during q
short visit which they paid to Bath,
with their baby; and when the youth
full husband came to tell him that he was
an officer and ordered on foreign SER
vice he promised to watch over the
lady's welfare. Months passed, and at
length the news of the mournful event
at the Cape reached England. The
clergyman, in the course of one of his
DoIlOulCdl tASlto w thC ANuyS uA0W q
paper from his pocket and began to
read this piece Of news 10 her as mat
ter of general interest. She tainted
and then the truth came out. It was a
secret marriage. and the yelled lady at
the gate of Chiselhurst is the wife of
Eugenie's son, though Eugene refuses
to recognize her in that or any other
character. 1t ought to be true, but it is
not. This is: The Prince had an affair
of the heart, and with very illustrious
lady, the Princess Beatrice of England.
That is to say--to go no further than
nv information--he had formed
strong affection for the Princess, which
was to some extent reciprocated. There
was no exchange of rings between the
younger people and an exchange OF
views between the elder, and the Queen,
without saying much as to her own per-
sonal tastes, expressed fear that Par
lament would not look with favor on
such match. One secret motive OF
the Princes journey was therefore to
conquer this difficulty by winning pop
ularity with the English people. do
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