Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-09-05
sPO0R CARLOTTAw
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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
Ooleo1i described as 1.-The finest man he
had ever seen" This same Leopold
went TO Paris in 1915, after the bat
tie ofWaterloo. In 1916 he was we'd
ded' TO .Carlotta, only daughter OF
George ". of England, and in Novem-
ber,, lSl7, both his wife and child, |
the latter new born, were buried.
In August, 1892, after the revolution |
which had separated Holland from
Belgium and given Leopold crown, !
he married Louise Maria second |
daughter of Louis Philippe, the ''Cltl- |
zen Kinp'' of the French. The fruit OF
this Union were Leopold, now King OF
the Belgians; Philippe, Count OF Elan
ders, and the unfortunate Cariotta'
The mother of Carlotta died when the
latterwas but 10 years old, and the
child had an early tuition III the hol-
low quality OF European court-llfe,
without any safeguard but such as
cou,d'be supplied by hired governesses.
writer OF the time Immediately sue
ceeainp the great tragedy OF her life I'M
consciously gives an idea OF her early
misery, when he says cher association
with her euperiors IN age was so con-
slant that She seems never to have EN-
loved the ordinary light -heartedness
and tlayfulness OF childhood" Poor
girl this was but preparation for
the sorrows to come-sorrows that
fhave had no parallel since the world
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bet, i,i dealing with women.
The poor young Princess grew, IN
favor ard in praise till, i'll 1867, when
hut 17-years old, she was married to
Macmillan, younger brother OF Fran
Scis Joseph, Emperor of Austria. The
marriage was one of those customary
Xy&nSth F.sF's of Europe, Just as
theft small imitators used to attempt
to make mere territorial marriages III
Virginia The poor girl, no doubt,
- loved her young husband. Her subse-
auent conduct showed how deep, how
absorbing, how unfortunate that love
was m its results.
Macmillan was a sailor by profess
ssbien, a philosophic inquirer by choice.
He commanded several scientific
expeditions and has written and
spublnhed some volumes that are
stfit treated with respect by the SCI
entific,world. II was this peculiarly
liberal bent OF mind that excited Ca
isvour's hostility to Macmillan. The
great Italian saw in the Austrian Prince
a deadly foe to Italian political free
dom. Austria, ut that time, had COM
plete control OF Venetia and Lombar-
= ions AMI
religious bonds, really governed Naples
and Rome. With liberal Prince like
Macmillan to represent Austrian
= ideas, the task ofthe Italian Liberator
"a would have been greatly increased; He
did not want q Macmillan around his
auarters, and said, "Maximilian is the
- only ad versary fear, because he rep
presents the only principle that can
ever snGhain our Italian cause.
M the time from 1857 to 1868,
Macmillan and Carlotta dwelt, as in
an Eden, at the palace OF Miramar, on
heeast coast of the Adriatic. 1t seems
that their life there was a perfect
~-idyH; love and literature supplying
it's rhythmic tones. Art in all shapes
music, sculptor, painting, words-al
=, combined to make their brief six years
:. of happiness one OF those delightful cpl
/. sodes, the mere reading OF which sug
= s<sts 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, @
sailor and a Hapsburg. An empire
was offered him. The tinsel Emperor
of a great nation, the fellow who in
herited a name without particle o
blood-right to the inheritance; TIT
smaller Napoleon, before whom tn,
SINCE Tigres kneeled for few years
gave vent to one of his grandiloquen
DEGREES. He would create a LatiI
,sehpire in the West, to redress the bal
<ance of the East" Plagiarist, even il
his orotund phrase, he blinded men,
eyes to his folly, and Maximilial
was seduced into becoming his instru
ment.
: Poor Carlotta, the faithful wife AM
> brave woman, followed her Austrian
husband to Mexico, where the new EN-
pire was to befounded andmaintained
The scheme was skillfully cOntrived
Napoleon the Little had money an
prestige enough, pending the civil wa
in the United States, to buy up a pal
.ty in Mexico. They were called apal
ty, bit were really lot OF stock-jol
hers and spectators, who, with heart
absolutely cold as to humanity orpa
.tsiotism, sought to make profit on
) of Mexican bonds, to say nothing {
"a Mexican blood. They went to Mir,
mar, and in the name of Mexico o
fered throne and fealty to the naples
prince.
~ Through one OF those miracles
blindness, which sometimes effects Il
- best educated men, Macmillan swa
Z. lowed the bait. Napoleon III. NJ
ID only needed a new Latin empire in IL
westepi-world but the prestige which
political alliance with the Hapsbur
would give him. Macmillan BEGAN
his tool; and the faithful Carlotta fo
lowed her lord. But the imperial pa
ITO use the phraseology of the Engli.
court journalsl had not been mar
weeks in Mexico before the wife, wit
true wifely instinct, saw and unde
80. stood the false position in which s
and Maximilian were placed. Carlot
from babyhood, had been noted for
peculiar sympathetic quality viii
caused her infinite grief, even VIII
the smallest and most inconsiderat
animal suffered in her sight. VIII
-. she saw the doom clouds gatheri
-. ! over her husband we NAV imagiI