The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-23

lover the opera Salome which is being
performed there at present. 1t will be
remembered that the authorities of
New York compelled Manager Conrad
, to withdraw this opera after one repre-
! sentation in that city. much te the dis
, gust of the music lovers. AS Paris
does not concern itself about anything
! except the artistic merits of a play or
opera, this masterpiece of Richard
Strauss was received with wild enthu-
siasm, and it is expected that the IA
nous composer viii receive the decora-
ton of the Legion of Honor before he
leaves that city.
The ex-Empress Eugene, widow of
Napoleon Ill, has been for years try
ing to recover several priced relies
which she claims were the private
property of her husband, and which
have been in different French palaces
and museums. The judgment of
Paris court now restores to her these
treasures so pregnant with memories
of the past power and grandeur of
The illustrious head of that family 10
which the Third Napoleon belonged.
| These are a book given to Napoleon l.,
by the Pope, his sword. the bit OF the
horse he rode at Waterloo, the bench
upon which he sat at Helena wrapped
in gloomy thot-if that bench could
speak, what could it add to the tragedy
rs We know tia box, which belong
! ed to st. Louis, and a portrait by the
celebrated French painter Lebrun of
i the unfortunate consort of Marie An
4 toinette. AS the museums will I'M
doubtedly get these relics again after
the death of Eugene, it IS but fair that
she should be allowed the satisfaction
of possession during the very few years
she will probably remain on earth.
i We are told that a colossal monu-
ment is soon to be erected to the poet,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, near San Te-
reno, Italy, where he spent the last
monument is taken from his own
poem, "Prometheus Unbound" and
represents the Titan writing on the
rock with the lightning which he
grasps in his hand this inscription: ITO
Shelley from the World Unbound" The
monument is to be As feet high and
attached to the cliff which faced the
house in which Shelley and Byron lived
and wrote their immortal poems. There
| is already a monument to Shelley at
| Viareggio, where his body was washed
ashore 10 days after he was drowned.
1 Who can forget that strange funeral
service conducted by his three friends.
Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, and Trelawny,
after the ancient Greek fashion, on the
shore near Viareggio, or the wierd.
dramatic picture they must have made
as they stood around the burning body
of the dead poet? AS the mortal part
of Shelley was being consumed to
ashes, Leigh Hunt poured wine on 1t.
Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, and Trelawny,
snatched from the embers the heart of
him whose winged words had charmed
the minds of men thru all the long
/ years since and made him, as far as
pure music and ideality are concerned,
one of the greatest poets of any age.
The little baby who is lying among
his laces in the royal cradle in Spain
will have a very gorgeous christening.
| Preparations are under way to make
this ceremony equal in pomp and SPLEEN
dor to the wedding of his father and
mother which took place about enc
year ago in old Madrid. Representa-
| tives of King Edward, the German Kali
| ser, the Emperor of Austria and the
King of Portugal will arrive very soon
and be entertained at the palace.
4 Forty-One prelates are expected to take
part in the baptismal ceremony. Al
| ready the astrologers are at work on
| the future of this tiny item of human
ity, and according to his horoscope, cast
by the astrologer, Gustave Meyer, of
Hoboken, it would be much better for
the royal babe to pick up and return
to the Good Land again as quickly as
possible, if he could only do so, rather
than remain on this wicked mundane
| sphere. This learned professor says
| that the prince will live to be 70 years
old. which period he will spend princi-
/ pally lodging bombs. AT 10 he will
| ascend the throne, his father having
died. and will marry beautiful actress
| presumably from New York. This will
make a great scandal. and his domestic
life will be very unhappy. He will be
| very unpopular. but on the whole will
have a good time.
| One of the most remarkable imros-
tors of the age whose entire manhood
has been spent in working on the cred
| ulity of the public, was the So-called
Lord Beresford," who died in Ashe-
vile, N. c., the other day. His real
name was Lascelles, Sidney Lascelfes,
and he was born in Australia of very
| well-to-do parents who gave him an
| excellent education, and when he was
81 sent him to England to seek his for
tunes. Being extremely attractive per-
| sonally, endowed with enough of the
| fatal gift of beauty to make him
irresistible to the fair sex, and in man
ner finished and plausible, he soon
| gained entrance to the inner circles of
fashionable society in London. where
/ all went wei! while his funds lasted.
| Preferring to live by his wits than by
honest labor. Lascelles then boldly as
| sumed the name of BereSford, posing
as a cousin of the English lord of that
| name. and as such secured an introduce
| ton to the American Minister, whose
/ confidence he soon gained. Unable to
| play his game in London where he was
/ too we'll known, he set sail for America,
! that paradise for Adventures, armed
with many letters of Introduction to
prominent society people all over the
| country which had been gladly and
! freely given him by his friend, the
American Minister. By means of these
| he secured an entrance into the homes
of New York's 400, was lionized by the
women, and made much of by the men.
He used the genuine coat of arms of
| the Beresfords on his stationery, in
| the marking of his linen, on his cigar
| case, and, in short, everything on which
! it could be placed, his private check
| book being rendered particularly i'm
pressive by this insignia of his sup
1 posed rank. He borrowed money here
and he borrowed money there, large
sums and small, and whenever it suited
| his schemes best to marry he did So
1t is known that he had at least six or
| eight wives and probably he had many
more than that number. He was finally
convicted of forgery and sentenced to
| five years Imprisonment, but after
| serving three and one-half years he
| was pardoned and released. Soon
after this he went to Fitzgerald, Ga,
where there is colony of veterans of
the G. A. r., mostly from Indiana, and
| here induced a girl who had fortune
in her own right to marry him. Beres-
| ford possessed himself of this money