Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-31
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 Leslie Popular Monthly.l I The Marechal Neil is one Of the lovelisst roses of it's kind, the noisette, and in its | name and origin there is one of the hither- to unwritten romances of the court of
 France in the second empire. In 1869, when the French army was sent to help 1 King Victor Emanuel drive the Austrians \ out of Italy, the third army corps was | commanded by General Neil. This officer, | as his name implies, came of one of those Irish noble families who emigrated to France | after the Battle of the Boyne in 1900, as | did the MacMahons, Fitz Jameses and oth- | CTS, who are now Irish in nothing but 1 their names General Neil had commanded | and fought his corps with such eminent
 ability and distinguished courage that when peace was made, with his eountryman and | friend, MacMahon, he was created mar l shal of France. It was we'll nigh autumn 1 before General Neil was able to return to | France He had been terribly wounded, ! and had suffered besides from the dreadful fever of the Italian marshes. For months he l was between life and death, with only his ! surgeon, who was his constant companion, 1 and a soldier servant, who proved to be an admirable nurse in his illness and conval-
 sseencs.
 One day peasant woman brought him 8 whole basket of wild roses from the l CAmpagD8 region, says LSslleS IOpulaF
 Monthly. General Neil had always been
 extremely fond of roses, and most of these
 were new to him and thus served to amuse
 him until they were withered. He observed | however, that one particular shoot had not ! faded and died like the others, but had
 grown into a beautiful green plant of per
 6aps ten inches in length. When he looked
 to seq why this one had grown and the l others faded, he found that bit of the
 root had been put away with the flower,
 which was of whitish yellow hue. Scarce ly knowing why, Neil determined to keep the shoot so curiously preserved. When he returned to Paris he placed the young | shoot with an expert florist eulturist, and | the next spring it bore four of the loveliest buds in the world, of pale lemon tinge. At
 that time General Neil was sent for to re- ceive the highest military rank then known ? in France, the grand cross of the Legion of s Honor and his commission Marshal ot . l France, in the presence of three emperors and all the kings in Europe worth naming ! After the solemn ceremony was ended, and = l he wore for the frat time on that day the - cross of the Legion of Houor, he went to the
 l reception of the Empress and presented tc her a curious yellowish rose of perfect form T | and perfume, but different from any she had t ever seen, and told her it's story.
 "And so you have proved the truth oi l what the old abbe used to say in his dread II fully tedious sermons at Pan, about casting a his bread on the waters,' said the Empress e (who, like Queen Elizabeth of blessed mem v ory, s'loved fine man'o to the handsomes ! and most daring. we'll as one of the ables - of the marshals of the second empire. "Dea r me, he was tedious, that good abbe," con, r tinued Her Majesty, with the softest look O
 retrospeetion in her lovely dark eyes. .'Now
 Monsieur le Marechal,'' said she vivaciously
 CT shall christen this rose for you" "Do so," said the Franke-Irish soldier s lowing very low, but flashing at her glance @ of profound admiration so warm that i e deepened into color little as they stood alone, and though the great salon of the pal F ace was crowded, no one dared to interrup 't their tete a-tete, which she herself had allowed v between the Empress and the handsomen General of his day.
 Lightly putting the rose to her lips s- she said; 'It is nance Marechal Neil IS for the soldier say t "ens reproche a as gallant in the the battle .o field"
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