The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-15

SO Iull Oh SURFING
and tragic events as this unfortunate
woman, and part of the tragedy was
played out at our very doors.
II Louis Napoleon had not disregard
ed the Monroe Doctrine, and attempt
ed, as he expressed it, to "re-establish
the prestige of the Latin race in
America" by creating the Mexican
empire, Macmillan would, in all hui
man probability, be alive today, Car
lotta would be in her right mind, and,
after the death of Francis Joseph, the
TWO would sit on the dual throne Of
Austria Hungary.
Carlotta was a beautiful girl of II
when, in 1857, the brother of the EN-
peror of Austria, the. Archduke Ferdi-
nand Macmillan, came a-wooing at
ner fathers court of Brussels. 1t was
at that very castle of Laeken where
Carlotta was born; where she spent
the happy days of her girlhood. and
where she has now been confined for
years., a hopeless maniac, that Maxi
milan did most of his counting.
He was rs years old at the time and
was accounted the most accomplished
prince in Christendom. Unlike most
royal marriages, the union of Maxi
milan and Carlotta was a love match,
and when they were married all the
future looked bright to them. Carlot-
ta's mother was a daughter of Louis
Philippe, ex-king of the French, and
her brother Leopold, the present King
OF the Belgians, was married to Maxi
milian's cousin, Henrietta, SO there
was a great gathering of the royal
and imperial clans at Brussels when
Carlotta was married, and everybody
thought that the story Of the lives of
the bride and groom might be closed
then and there with the line, "And
they lived happy ever afterward."
No cloud, even as big as a mans
hand, appeared above their horizon to
suggest the stormy and tragic years
to come. Macmillan built for his
bride the beautiful castle of Miramar,
overlooking the Adriatic, not far from
Trieste, and the pair settled down to
what they thought would be a long life
of quiet, domestic happiness. Maxi
milan had been a great traveller, and
in the halls of Miramar he gathered
the curios n art treasures which
he had collected from all over the
world. He was an admiral in the
Austrian navy and a student of naval
affairs, and called his study in the
castle the ship ROOM"
But far in the western world events
were taking place in the storm and
stress of which the lives of Carlotta
and Macmillan were destined to be
wrecked. The American civil war
broke out and the ambition of Louis
1 Napoleon saw in the difficulties of the
Great Republic his opportunity. I'm
der the fostering care of France,
kingdoms and principalities would be
established in the new world, and he,
Napoleon, would build them. No
longer should the United States domi-
nate the western continent.
An Austrian prince on the throne of
Mexico and a French prince on the
throne of Louisiana were dreams
which haunted the halls of the Tuil-
leries. So, n day in 1863, the ser
pent entered the paradise of Miramar
in the guise of an envoy from the
French emperor, who held out before
Macmillan the temptation of a crown.
France, England, Spain and Belgium
were to use their armies to place the
crown of Mexico firmly upon the head
of the Austrian, and Carlotta was to
be an empress. 1t was represented to
the pair that the better element of
Mexico was DESTROYS to have them
come over and rescue the nation from
anarchy, and an imposing delegation
of Mexicans went to see the %archduke.
Carlotta and Macmillan held the
matter under advisement for a long
time, and talked the proposition over
with all the important members of
their families. Finally they yielded,
and in 1864 Macmillan went to Mexi-
co. He stopped at Paris on his way
and Napoleon said to him: 81 will
carve you an empire out of a brick of
solid silver" Carlotta followed Maxi
milan to his new empire, and they
were crowned with great pomp in the
cathedral in the City of Mexico.
Then came a brief and dazzling