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Empress CarlOta Will Return to Mex
leo.
Hope That Her Reason May be Re.
stored by Visiting Scenes
of Happy Days.

A state visit of most unusual nature
is soon to be made the officials of the
Republic of Mexico. The visitor was at
one time a ruler of Mexico, and she is
| to be temporarily returned to the
scenes of some of her happiest days in
the hope that a shaft of light may
touch her darkened mind. which has
been bereft of reason for many years,
the direct result of her former residence
and rule in Mexico.
| EX-EmpresS Carlota, as she was
known to the Mexicans, lost her reason
when her husband, Macmillan, was de-
serted by his French allies. Her con-
templated visit to Mexico will natural
ly revive interest in the history of the
brief monarchial period which was
brought to a close by Jaurez and other
Mexican patriots.
In 1860 Jaurez, the Chief Judge of the
Supreme Court of Mexico, became the
much partisan dissatisfaction resulted,
especially on the part of the Clericals.
| Emissaries We're sent from the country
to enlist the services of some nation
friendly to the Clerical party in over
throwing JaureZ. The French diplomats
were made to believe that the whole
population of the country was opposed
to a liberal government, and Louis Ma
| poleon sent a detachment of troops to
| take possession of the country With
| the aid Of the Clericals. the French
captured Mexico City and council of
notables" was called. That council de-
cided that a monarchy was the kind of
a Government the people of Mexico
| wanted and the crown was offered to
| Macmillan, Archduke of Austria, and
| accepted by him. He arrived in Mexi-
co in June, 1864, accompanied by En-
press Carlota. The Emperor appointed
| Cabinet members from the anti-Mon-
archial party and attempted to recon-
Gle the various political parties of the
Republic.
| All this history was made while the
North and South were engaged in the
war of rebellion. That having been end
ed Uncle Sam began to turn his atten-
ton to the Mexican situation About
that time the French populace also be-
came interested in the same political
subject, and in order to appease his
own subjects Louis Napoleon was COM
| PEELED to withdraw the French troops
from Mexico City, and Macmillan was
| deserted by the European monarchies
Empress Carlota realized that her nus
! band was in great danger, and she
| made numerous visits to the old coun-
| try, and called on nearly every Euro
pean monarch and made earnest but
vain appeals for assistance for her hus-
band, the Emperor who had been in
| duced to accept the crown, and was
then left to his fate. Macmillan, at the
| head of 10000 troops, all of whom he
supposed were faithful was defeated
by large force of republican soldiers.
! During a night, while he was sleeping
on the field he was captured and
about month later on July 10Th, he
was shot Some time after his remains
were taken to Vienna.
| Her failure to secure relief for her
husband and the severe strain of con-
tinued grief and excitement dethroned
the Empress reason, and she was plac-
ed in a. private sanitarium, where she
| has remained almost constantly for
years. The story of her proposed re-
turn to Mexico is we'll told in the fol-
lowing taken from a recent issue of
| Inc Two RepuDllcS, an American
newspaper printed in Mexico City:
"Carlota, ex-Empress of Mexico. is to
return once more to the land of her
! short-lived glory and the scenes OF
| some happiness which in a very short
| time was enveloped and lost in the
| tragic events of her life. At least this
is the story which was given The Two
| Republic" by an eX-diplomat yesterday
"Carlota is an old woman now, past
81. She came to Mexico thirty three
years ago, a bride of only few years
and Empress, and those who remember
| her We'll say, a woman of queenly grace
Less than three years later she was a
crownless widow in exile and dethroned
| of reason. From that time till this she
has been kept in the utmost seclusion.
and at times her malady taking on a
violent form; but for the most part she
| has lived quietly, clinging to the illu-
| sion that she is still the Empress of a
great nation, and that the keepers who
| slip about noiselessly to do her most
trifing bidding are her faithful and
loving subjects.
"Carlota inherited a large fortune,
and it has been held in trust by her
brother Leopold. King of the Belgians
From time to time it has been reported,