The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-15


"See, see, see how my generals treat me.
They said / would be sale hsre from tho
Prussians. am in their midst. = gem
erals do net know where the Prussians are"
The eood woman took the frightened man
by the arm and lei him to the grounds IN
the rear Of her house.
what you say, SIRE" she exclaimed in
low tone, lis only TOO true, unless this means
something worse. The prince is left with
Marshal Bazaine, while IN attempt is made
on your life. But your generals do not
know where the Prussians ara. For two
weeks past your troops have been defeated
from surprises"
"What am to do9 What am 70 DOR
piteously demanded the great .nperor Of
poor woman.
''I would advise you, sire, to withdraw to
some place not so we'll known to either your
own generals or the Prussians."
''Whero is that, madaneT' he eagerly de-
manded.
She thought a moment and said: 'fMy
gardener, sire, has house in Graz elotte. 1t
Is an humble abode, but there you can re-
main concealed, and believe Ia safety. I'M
til I can communicate with your real
friends.n
The poor man consented, and hastily swal-
lowing a cup OF coffee the good woman
forced upon him, he submitted to a disguise
that lsisted OF cloak, and handkerchief
tied over the lower part of his face to con-
cedl his heavy moustache, and thus arrayei
the imperial dynasty was helped into an old
voiture. drawn ty an aged. rheumatic
horse and driven by the gardener. What
spectacle was thati But few days before
this emperor had marched out of Paris at
the head of an immense army, amid waving
banners, to martial music AMI exciamations
of an excited populace, AMI now, SICK at
body and sick at heart, worn. wasted AMI
feeble, he was lifted into an old voiture by
two women and laborer, to fee in disguise
from his own troops, whom he distruste l,
AMI rom Prussians he very properly feared.
The mystery of that exploded shell has
never been, and probably never will be,
solved. 1t was the one shell sent into Long
vile that day. 1t came so well rec,ed and
did its work SO near its intent that one
doubts VIII Their 10 was manufactured at
Berlin or Paris, and whether we have 70
compliment the Prussian artillery on its aim
or the sagacity of certain French conspira-
tors who saw that military protectorate of
docile prince would be wiser than the con-
troll of wrong. headed imbecile whose van
ity had nearly ruined France.
Be- that as 1t may, the disguised despot
| iolted safely over the cobble stones of the
| highway until he reached his destination.
visited that, also. 1t is No. 6 on the one
street of GravelotUe. and 1 can testify that
| it is humble enough. The few rooms are Of
| low ceiling. stone floor, with that lack of
| ventilation that marks the home of an Faro
| pean laborer and makes the cholera welcome.
The emperor, helped down from his hard
seat In the voiture, limped into the hest
room on the arm of the gardener, and sank
| into an old armchair vered with a red
cotton stuff that is yet shown to the visitor.
| He sat for six hours without moving, an l
gael with those red, fishy eyes OF his as if
| stunned AMI dazed bv the terrible events
being enacted about him. One could almost
| pity this blood stained, perjured actor of the
| coup detot, who had watered the streets OF
! Paris with the innocent blood of men,
women and children, and had not sense
| enough to be even a charatan. Twenty
years of empire had passed, in which he had
l playel so conspicuous part. He saw him
| self lifted from ridiculous obscurity to the
| fist throne of Europe, 20 reign & d-spot over
the greatest nation, and the most emil yht-
tened people the world ever knew. He saw
| himself made TIE instrument to humble
| Russia, and secure n reward the gracious
| acquaintance of & queen, whose recogni
| ton was a paint of ROYALTY. He saw
again the armies Of France, under his com
| mand, roll back the Austrian usurpers, and
restore the nationality of Italy. He saw
himself feared ami even respected. the ac
knowledged head of the first war power and
foremost nation of the world. And now
he sat deserted and alone in this miserable
abode, with all his empire crumbling about
him, under fearful blows from a power ht
hau despised. and treachery from those ht
hal fed ami favored. OF ali the cocoon
spirators against popular rights, called
friends, who had helped him to power, over
the ruins of the Republic, in years gone by
not one remained. They were dead, o.
recognizing his failing fortunes, haC
deserted him. They had given him brain
and courage.
The keen, cool man of the world, De Nor
ney, his supposed illegitimate half-brother
who escaped the Napoleonic imbecility
through his mother; the audacious adven
!
statesman Thouvenel, whose mind baS
genius that made intuition learning, ant
whose state Papers COMPOUNDED the ables
diplomats of Europe, were dead and tn
rest, low villains generally, they who ha
aided in inaugurating assas ination, IN lie
the name of empire, had all skunk ava
from the doomed man. who could well sa
with Macbeth:
g have lived long enough; my way of life
Is fallen into the sere and yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age
AS honor. love, obedience, troops of friends
must not look to have"
For six hours he sat i'll silence, and at tn
end of that time His Imperial Majesty sinelle
somethin. Lifting his maj sac nose. wit
a snuff. he said to the wife of the gar lener
Madame, do you not cook somethinsT
''Yes, sire; some onion soup for my hu
band"
"Can you give me someF'
Most willingly, sire"
And in an iron pan, With an iron spool
the hungry emperor found meal that
ate heartily, and then said:
''.dadame, that is the best dinner eve
tasted