The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-11

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padour an honorable and convenient
chance of effecting her wishes, She
continued to domineer, while Ludwig,
enravshed by the superb woman, and
blinded by the batteries she heaped
upon him, was unaware of her design.
Her plans We're already made. The
antagonism of Minister Abel against
her and her intuitively OWNED knowl-
edge of the kings antipathy for his
cabinet decided Lola In her resolution.
She would dislodge the Jesuits, and by
this change of government would
achieve her aim. The cabinet were not
displeased at having found Lola as a
reason for resignation. They went out,
but not before freely expressing their
opinion to the king as to his position.
The evaporation of Ludwig was in
creased when a professor of the uni
versity openly expressed his sympathy
with the retiring ministry Ludwig
Immediately suspended him. This was
the cause of the first openly avowed
displeasure by the people. The indig-
nant citizens assembled before Lola's
mansion on Barerstrasse and hurled
curses at the lighted windows behind
which Lola and her infatuated king
were ensconced. A window was
thrown open, Lola appeared, raised a
glass of wine to the throng and drank.
She even threw sweetmeats among
them, thus making evident her abso-
lutte indifference to them. An angry
howl was the reply; but when the king
left the house he met with no disre-
spect, for Ludwig was beloved by his
people, who were ito the bone" faithful
to their king.
Lola was lacking in foresight; had
she but contented herself with using
her power from behind the scenes no
one can say how long she would have
continued to accumulate cats and ca
naries and feast her friends and fol-
lowers at the princely mansion given
her by the king. But she challenged
| the people, the nobility and the univer-
| sty and army, wilfully insulting them
all. She caused Maurer, the new prime
| minister, to be deposed and in his of
fee installed an unprincipled roue.
Being elevated to the rank of Countess
Landsberg, she whirled through the
streets in a chariot with regal trap
pings. The Montez' masterpiece of au-
dacity was the organizing of body
guard-the so-called "Alemannia"- for
she soon found the need of some sort Of
protection when without her house.
| She assembled a number of students
and formed a corps which was known
as the "Knights of Lola" These
knights" lived and caroused in the rear
of Lola's house; attacked her oppo-
nents in the boldest manner and raised
a disturbance at every opportunity.
| Already had the affair gone so far that
| only a drop was needed to cause the
vessel of public wrath to overflow.
Lola herself brought about the crisis;
| she melted the Alemannia to all man
ner of aggression, and one day 1t trans
pired that the chief of her knights
found himself surrounded by an irate
gathering, who demanded his impris-
| onment on account of the too free use
of his dagger Then Lola appeared on
the scene, incredible as 1t may seem,
in a personal attempt to rescue her
warrior, with all the graceful insolence
of which she was past mistress. The
| crowd recognized her and with howl
rushed toward her to destroy their en-
envy, and only with difficulty did she
gain the safety of her gates But not
for an instant did Lola entertain the
thought of submission. Step by step
and day by day. she followed up the
attack. On the ninth of February, at
Lola's desire, the king closed the doors
of the university; on the tenth, before
deputation of magistrates, he refused
to rescind this order. The next morn
ing he saw with apprehension vast
assembly of people before his palace
who were imbued with one intent
away with the woman!" Then-ht
gave in While the people swayet
through the Barerstrasse Lola's car.
riage dashed homewards. She hat
played her last trump. But the game
was not played out. While the people
of Munich never again saw Lola, she
had, by night, FASTENED to the kings
chamber by her private entrance to the
palace, and there spent hours witt
him in an endeavor to spur him into
retaliation, and she was indeed in the
humor to cry va banque to Munich
| Bavaria, to the world But the kint
was obdurate. He atoned for all h,
| ndQ incurred. onWlIIl1Rly ne max
aroused the ire of his subjects. The!
were no longer to be cajoled. A month
later and he was forced to assent t.
modern reforms. Shortly afterwards
; he resigned the throne, and this wal
the end of Lola's reign in Munich
when Lola is no more then there will
be no Ludwig" the king had once jes
tingly remarked. He had made hi
Jest earnest. But Lola, the heroine o
a kingly love-tale, the unconscious lib
orator of a people the object of the GU
riosity of a million, plunged once NOR
into the troubled stream of an adven
turess' life, made some men happy ant
married others. Her beauty was wan
ing, her nimble limbs We're waxin.
stiff, and the number of adorers be
came less The versatile Lola nov
gave readings, she compiled her me
moirs, she published articles on tn
. emancipation of woman, and on thi
: theme surely she can be accounted
connoisseur! But this could not sta.
the end; on the seventeenth of Janua
: ry, 1861, Lola Montez died in squalo
and obscurity.
ALFRED STILLE IVES.
: Munchen, February, '9S.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
Charles w. Bassett, a carpenter, VIII