Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-12-16

lowed where she willed. Then CarlOt-
tas shoulders Strengthened and she
walked to the window with the grace
that once was hers. Looking out upon
the towering trees from branches OF
which the frost-tinted leaves were fall
ing with each play of the wind Car.
lotta murmured, MACMILLAN"
That was all. The film gathered
again on her eyes. her body bent and
she was lost again.
Eugene once reigned as empress OF
the French. and for Ia years her life
and activities were interviewer In the
story Of the rise and fall of the SEQ
ond empire. Today she is an exile.
living with a limited court at Farm
borough. England. an easy gallop from
the guns of Aldershot and the royal
magnificence of Windsor palace. Once
she was the autocrat of fashion at the
imperial court. She lived to see the
Tuileries palace invaded by a mob and
to find herself forced to fee for pro-
lection to the house of a friendly
American citizen. DR.. Thomas w.
Evans. then a resident of Paris. and
later to embark at midnight at Deau-
Vile. on a yacht flying British colors.
Eusenie's Brief Triumph.
Eugenie's father was a Spanish
grandee. the Count of Montijo. The
third Napoleon. he Of the shaggy eye
brows and mustache bristling with
waxed points, met her in Paris. He
asked her to become his empress and
she consented. Following their mar
riaee in the cathedral of Notre Dame.
Paris had . round of fetes that lasted
for q fortnight.
Eugene was born in 1926. She was
twenty-seven years old when she be-
came an empress in 1853. Three years
thereafter q son was born to her and
to tragedy alike. He had grown to
youth when France declared war on
Germany In 1870. Napoleon ILL.,, like
that other emperor Of France, rode
with the colors and shifted the air of
battle. As warrior he did not
measure up to the stature of those
who had preceded him on the throne
The defeat of the French army came
with the fall of Sedan. and the en-
peror became an exile.
Then the mob in Paris and the flight
Of the empress. Dethroned and dis
graced, Napoleon III. died in 1873.
Later, the prince, their son, set out
with the British troops for Zululand.
He never returned. A breech-clouted
spearman sent an assegai through his
body and left him dead. face up to the
burning sun.
Travellers In England sometimes get
a glimpse of the black-robed figure Of
the former empress. as she rides forth
on missions of charity. Her hair is
snow white. her face a study in resig-
nation. For 40 years she. too. has been
a Queen of Sorrow.
And now the tall, stately. black-eyed
Amelie completes the trio, queen of
Portugal. then made dowager by a
double tragedy. she is now. like the
aged Eugene. an exile. Her last fare
we'll to her country was from the deck
of the royal yacht. which King Carlos
named Amelie, In her honor. As the
craft steamed away from MARIA,
Queen Amelie looked down upon the
fisherfolk standing mute-lipped on the
shore and cried. 1T is infamy! Au
revoir!"
Lies vIcissitudes.
How uncertain the title to throne or
principality! Amelie. born to be a
queen. was the daughter of the late
Comte de Paris. Her birthplace was
in England. whittier the comte and
his countess had gone when France
gave them warning that the tri-color
could not longer give them shelter.
When she had grown to maidenhood
Carlos came a-wooing. and in making
her his queen he gave to Portugal
both rose and thorn.
Before Portugal disposed Of King
Manuel in a diplomatic way three
reigning monarchs of the wave
washed. vineclad country had met
death tragically. Pedro v. fell a vic
tim to poison known to the mystics