The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
POOR CARLOTTA!'

fednearly twenty years ago, is slowly
but surely returning.-[Cable dis
patch.
Surely the most mournful of all the
sad stories OF modern history is that
of Carlotta, the daughter of that Leo
pold of Belgium, whom the great Ma
poleon described as the finest man he
had ever SEEM" This same Leopold
went to Paris in 1915, after tbs bat
tie of Waterloo. In 1916 he was we'd
ded to Carlotta, only daughter of
George ". of England, and in Eovem-
Der, 1917, both his wife and child.
the latter new born, were buried,
In August, 1882, after the revolution
which had separated Holland from
Belgium and given Leopold a crown,
he married Louise Maria second
daughter of Louis Philippe, the "Citi-
zen King of the French. The fruit of
this union were Leopold, now King of
the Belgians; Philippe, Count OF Elan
ders, and the unfortunate Carlotta.
The mother of C~arlotta died when the
latter was but 10 years old, and the
child had an early tuition In the hoi-
low quality of European court-life,
without any safeguard but such as
could be supplied byhired governesses.
A writer of the time Immediately sue
ceedingth great tragedy of her life UNI
consciously gives an idea of her early
misery, when ne says her association
with her superiors in age was so con-
slant that she seems never to haveen
ioyed the ordinary Observation-Disclosures
and playfulness of Childhood Poor
girl! this was but a preparation for
the sorrows to come-sorrows that
have had no parallel since the world
has agreed to discard the ak and glib
bet in dealing with women.
The poor young Princess grew in
favor and in praise till, in 1867, when
but II years old, she was married to
Macmillan, younger brother of Fran
els Joseph, Emperor of Austria. The
marriage was one of those customary
among the +. F's of Europe, just as
their small imitators used to attempt
to make mere territorial marriages in
Virginia. The poor girl, no doubt,
loved her young husband. Her subse-
quent conduct showed how deep, how
absorbing, how unfortunate that love
was in it's results.
Macmillan was a sailor by profess
ion, a philosophic inquirer by choice.
He commanded several scientific
expeditions and has written and
published some volumes that are
still treated with respect by the sci
entific world. 1t was this peculiarly
liberal bent of mind that excited Ca
YOURS hostility to Macmillan. The
great Italian saw in the AustriGa Prince
a deadly foe to Italian political free
dom. Austria, at that time, hadcom-
plete control of Venetia and Lombar-
dy and, by marriage connections and
religious bonds, reallygoverned Naples
and Rome. With a liberal Prince like
Macmillan to represent Austrian
ideas, the task ofthe Italian Liberator
would have been greatly increased. He
did not want a Macmillan arouadhis
quarters, and said, Macmillan is the
only adversary | fear, because he rep
presents the only principle that can
ever enchain our Italian cause
All the time from 1857 to 1868,
Macmillan and Carlotta dwelt, al in
an Eden, at the palace of Miramar, on
the east coast ofthe Adriatic. Itseems
that their life there was a perfect
hyll; love and literature supplying
it's rhythmic tones. Art in all shapes;
music, sculptor, painting, words-all
combined to make their briefsix years
OF happiness one ofthose delightful epi-
sodes, the mere reading OF which sug-
gests happiness and love TO all man
kind. But the tempter came. Maxi
milan was ambitious Of worldly re-
nown; he knew the sweets OF acquisi-
ton as a scholar: he was brave, q
sailor and q Hapsburg. An empire
was offered him. The tinsel Emperor
of q great nation. the fellow WHO in
herited a name without a particle OF
blood-right ito the inheritance; the
smaller Napoleon, before whom the
SINCE Tigres kneeled for a few years,
gave vent to one OF his grandiloquent
DEGREES. He would create a Latin
empire in the West, to redress the ball
ance of the East Plagiarist, even IN
his orotund phrase, he blinded mems
eyes to his folly, and Macmillan
was seduced into becoming his lnstru-
ment.
Poor Carlotta, the faithful wife and
brave woman, followed her Austrian
husband to Mexico, where the new EN-
pire was to befounded and maintained.
The scheme was skillfully contrived.
Napoleon the Little had money and
prestige enough, pending the civil war
in the United States, to buy up q par
ty in Mexico. They were called apar-
ty, but were really a. lot OF stock-JoDs
beers Inc speculators, who, with hearts
absolutely cold as to humanity orpa,-
triotism, sought to make q profit out
of Mexican bonds, to say nothing OF
Mexican blood. They went to Mira
mar, and in the name of Mexico OF
fered throne ana fealty to the hapless
Drinon