The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-10

tor the fact that he was constantly Ii
debt. He was not eminent for rowing
or for gambling, OF for pictures. Or fo
women, yet the net result was debt
But when he came toinvestigate himsel
he found that he was little on rowin,
and little on pictures, q little on horses
and q little on wOlneD-in short, little
on every thing, and the aggregate wa.
running behind. Keene bought every
thing OF so!d every thing, and the ag
LAST DAYS.
The Exciting Situation in Paris
( Which Drove Napoleon and Eu
genie Into Exile. 1f'
The events of the 14th served on the
whole to give the court too great a sense
| of security. On the 18th the battles
around Metz began, and Bazaine's ar
mics, everywhere outnumbered and
beaten, had to retreat before the Ger
man hosts. But St. Privat and Grave
lotte we're reported to the Parisians al
victories, and it was said that Bazaine
ha d thrown himself into Nets in order
to take up strong position!' The
empress believed in all these fables.
Was it wonder that she should do so
when at clubs like the Union and the
Cercle Imperial old generals would bark
furiously at you if you expressed any
doubt as to Marshal Canroberts having
driven a whole regiment of Prussian cui-
rassiers into the sand-pits Of Gaumont-
sand-pits which had no existence. The
truth is, double sets of kilograms used to
be sent from the seat of war, and those
which related events with some ap-
proach t. the truth for none
of them we're wholly truthfuD
were never communicated to the en-
press. When the hoaxing dispatch
about the Jaumont sand-pits was put in
to her hands, the poor lady, believing in
real victory, was SO overjoyed that she
ran down from her apartments to the
guard-room right among the, soldiers,
who were lying upon camp-beds or play:
ing cards, and waved the telegram, cry:
ing: 1.-THE Prussians are beaten!" She
then suspended all her
| own personal preparations for
! flight. She said that If revolution were
| attempted in Paris she would herself
| ride at the head of the troops that uuel-
led it. This was her mood during Sc
| veral days, and it explains how SO few
| of her own chattles were removed from
the palace. Her wardrobe containe d
more than three hundred dresses; her
collection of fans, of frs, of lace, and
linen was probably unique, for the pin
money which she had received in month
ly payments ever since her marriage
amounted to $4s, 900 year. and one may
add that she never failed to spend this
sum to the last franc. Everything that
the empress possessed with the excep-
ton Of her Jewels and few valuable
missals, was. left at the Tuleries when
she fed; and the jewels would have been
abandoned, too; had not Nine: Carette'
one Of her majesty's ladies-in-w waiting,
prevailed upon her, after much plead
ing, to have these treasures confded to
banker.
The empress led curious life during
her last days on the throne. She was
up every morning at o'clock. attired in
a black cashmere dress which she wore
all day with plain white collar and cuffs.
At half past7 she heard mass said in the
private chapel of the Tuileries by Mgr.
Bauer, her almoner. Immediately
after this she took cup Of chocolate
with Nine. Carette, who, by the by, was
one of the most renowned court beauties
and most charming companion, owing
to her exquisite cheerfulness. Tie emf
press private apartments were on the
first floor Of the Pavilion de Flore over
looking the garden; anu commanding a
glorious view Of the Seine and, the
Champs Elysees as far as the Triumphal
Arch. The room in which she general
" sat was circular saloon, very gaily
decorated with the panels painted by
Charles Chaplin, and illustrating the
loves ola violet and a rose. In this room
from o'clock in the morning until long
after the nominal hour for dinner, which
day after day was delayed, the empress
received al uninterrupted flow of visi-
tors. and the confusion of those wretch
ed times was shown by the kind as we'll
as by the number of persons who were
allowed to penetrate into her presence.
Crack pated men bringing plans for
new campaigns, inventors who had new
sorts of shells to propose, wives of con-
yicts, who sought pardon for their hus-
bands, and, it is pitiful to add, men of
every degree who wanted to coax or
buliy grants OF money, posts or decora-
oAOAo oub VI u 1OSOAb "uOlu O1l0y kHOW 10
have in her more of womanly sweetness
than of regal strength-all these people
we're by some objectionable misman-
Agement on the part of those who
should have protected the empress, al
lowed to plague her all day long. An
excuse that may be offered for some of
the rev gt4Req in goXe%E ID t1 te
bilities of office. M. Clement Duvernois,
for instance young man of 20, who
has become minister of commerce on
the strength Of some dashing newspa-
per articles-was regular Bohemian |
who used always to show an inch of
shirt between his vest and the waist
band of his neither garments. From alb.
sent-mindedness he could 60 out with
patent-leather boot on one foot and
clump-s oled shoe on the other. This
eccentric man of talent, who displayed
some administrative ability in provision
ing Paris for the siege, used to give au-
dience to Quondram Bohemian brethren
at the Cafe de Madrid, and when he
could not grant them all they desired he
would dismiss them in patches, saying;
take care that you are admitted"
Things reached pretty pass when on
the 3lst of August horde of hungry
applicants, tired Of waiting in the ante
chambers of the Tuileries, pushed their |
way into the private dining room, and
swOoped upon a cold luncheon that had
been spread for the empress.
On the LIST of September some servants
of the imperial household absconded,
taking with them portable articles of
value, statutes of bronze and marble,
miniature paintings, albums. Some of
the empreso's dresses vanished. Gen.
Roland, the governor Of the palace, was
at pains to secure proper attendance for
the regent; and going on tour of in
spection through the kitchens, he was
stupefed to see workmen, solliers, and
women-the friends of the scullions-
being treated as honored guests in the
servants hall. The intruders were re-
jected pretty quickly by guards sum-
moned for the purpose, but by this time
it was known that emperor's struggles
against the German a. mics was hopeless
and there was general feeding fabroad
that before many days were over the
Tuilleries would be in possession of the
mob. The only person that, seemed to
doubt this was the empress herself. She
still had herself-contained paroxysms of
horror aout being murdered by an armed
mob; but she thought that the garrison
of Paris would make a resolute stand for
the imperial cause and keep the throne
outstanding, though she herself might
accidentally be put to death.-Temp]e
Bar.
Our Country and Other Countries.
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