Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-31
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

hurst, and her selection of residence at Farm
borough Hill in Hampshire, winds up by ask
ing, Did ever history reveal the truth of 'un-
easy lies the head that wears a crown 30
potently as the story of this childless. mother
less, widowed woman, once the beauty of
Europe; and the peerless of expresses! And
but one female creature has reviled her-and,
alas, this creature is an American
This finale would be touching if it weren't
hackneyed into absurdity. We have
learned by the iteration of quarter of q
century that Eugenie was beautiful, but she
couldn't be beautiful forever, and she had to
grow old like the rest of the human family. In
historysher charms and her grace will be re-
corded, and this thought of perennial lowell
ness ought to be compensation for the iney-
liable spoliation of time.
Childless, ali yes, here. is the poignant sorrow
of all, and yet taking disappointed ambition,
exalted beyond calculation, out of the cousid
eration, and the woful manner of its extinc-
ZION, the imperial sorrow for dead son is not
one whit more touching than the anguish of
Airs. Battles, over in Saltwater, at the heart
rendipg exit of her boy from life. From read.
ing and from the stage. we unconsciouslv get
the notion thai when any OF the afflictions
ana caiamlties OF our mortal lot, befall pc rsons
OF nigh degree, there must be an exquisite
dash OF misery in their suffering unknown to
ioWly nbres. That their nerves yibrate with
the high dramatic and scenic movement Of
their lives, and that the only appropriate cog
nizance of it is by Shakespeare, who seemed to
know how it was himself.
When madness selzes the Empress Carlotta
It's only Shakespeare we think, who could give
US an adequate idea of the
psthos of it Just as he
did for Lear. So when the assesa;s of The
Zuius cut down the gallant young Bonaparte.
something of his ShakeRperian sentiment fills
the heart for the only son and PROMISING
Prince OF notable family. Yet we are sure
that the youth died at the rig bit time and prob
ably II good way for the perpetuation of his
memory. The Bonapartes Of to-day are not
certain IN anything save an uniailing supply
OF the nane, and a redundancy of imperial as
plrants asevery turn of the wheel
MofAerless the empress is too, but she is not
such young and helplese orphan as 10 excite
much pity and in the worlds goods she Is
more than well off, even if she no longer has
Inc same circumstances for display. But we
must all read just so much sentiment about
Inc mlsfortunes and scrrows of royalty, hay
Ing vague feeling that they are greater to
them than to other people, because the indi-
Vidna!s pass for great.
For thf finale of this cablegram:
Ii the American female creature reviled
until language failed her, she could write
nothing thai hadn't already been published
IN the must pungent, offensive and burtful
manner by French journalists. And here it
may be remarked that as Frenchmen outshipe
the world IN superficial poIiteness towards
women, tGey likewise outstrip the lowest of
mankind Ia their truculepce and abuse of the
seq, when they ere put to it through malice,
political bitterness, Or pecuniarv gain.
For instance, no female creature, conIJ
use the following fact against the Empress
Eusenie with the same spitefol ingenuity as
Henri Rochefort in La Lanterne, when Louis
Napolean escaped from Ham in the parb of
baolnquet the mason, Rochefort announced
That the mason strangled him, hid his body
and personated the Prince in England. son
this theory" said the Lanternier, "can we
account for his Unsuitable mania for tearing
down and rebuilding Paris, for the plastering
OF the Empress face, and especially to his
constant illusions to Growing the edifice."
deputation of fshwomen from the Halle
once went to Compiegne to make complaint
OF some municipal order, and were sent off
without ceremony because their reception was
against etiquette. Whereupon Rochefort asked
In DIS paper-"Was it feared that some of the
nobility of the Second Empire might recognize
relative, or that some dealer in picked her
rings on seeing the Duke of Persigny ablaze
with decorations, might gasp: "God bless me.
but that's little Fialin!?" Persigny went in a
rage to complain to the Emperor Napoleon's
reply was "he has ibelled my mother"
30 he had: In an article bristling with sreers
OF the emperors father he contrived to fling
the most viiiainous insults at Queen Hortense
Yet the emperor was often seen with the
Lanterne in his hand, as if he were an amused
reader OF Its deadly wit. When the empress
went to the East La Lanterne gave her the
vilest send-off. All that the most
malignant ingenuity conId non
has been published broadcast from time to
time against the empress; SO that whatever the
American female creatnre' could do in the
way OF reviling was an insipid echo, not worth
mentioning In a cablegram That sort Of thing
was done to perfection by the late unscrupu-
lous subjects of Eugenie-either in the attacks
OF the ablest journalists, or in dreadful songs
among the people where "espagrole" was made
to rhyme with "Carnaagraole."
Perchance the law Of compensation is better
exhibited in the exile of Eugene than any,
where else. She has exchanged the frivolities.
the 'greeds and gauds' of imperial splendor for
the love and sympathy of honest hearts the
world over. Her faith teaches her that ssby
means OF her SORROWS she is part of the eter-
nal plan, and through them she succeeds to a
kingdom from which she can not be turned a
fugitive.
While illustrating some of the civiIities which
French journalists extend to women of position
the Not a. Oydre speaks of ''Old THEIRS
Widow" and upbraids her for her avarice in
not illuminating her house on the night of the
fourteenth of July. While calling her aver
ice, 'incurable and sordid," it tells her that
the man Theirs stole half a million of francs
allowed him for rebuilding the mansion, and
left 1t to be put into the respectable WOODEN
stocking of his widow. These tributes from
Frenchmen. popularity called the most refined
and courteous to ladies. are eloquent reading
when one is in the vein for contraries.