Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1910-12-01

ond empire. Today she Is an eAno'
living with a limited court a. a.
borough. England, an easy gallop lroni
the Guns of Aldershot and the ro!a
,nognificence of Windsor palace. once
she was the autocrat of fashion DIT tno
imnerial court. She lived to see INC
Tuileries palace invaded by mop anu
IN find herself forced to fee LOT pio-
lection to the house OF lrlenury
American citizen, DR.. Ihohlas
Evans. then a resident OF Paris, anu
later to embark at midnight at Deau'
Vile, on a yacht flying British coi0'''
Euoenie's Brief Triumph.
Eugenies father was a Spanish
orandee the Count of Montijo. Inc
third Napoleon, he of the shaggy eye
brows and mustache bristllng WIN
waved points, met her In Paris ne
asked her to become his empress anu
sbo consented. Following their mar
riaee in the cathedral of Notre Dame,
poris had a round of fetes that lasted
for fortnight. o, ..,o
Epqenie was born in 1926. She was
+wantv.seven years old when she De-
came an empress in 1853. Ihree yea ,
thereafter a son was born to her anu
70 tragedy alike. He had grown "
youth when France declared war on
; Germany in 1870. Napoleon Ill, hhe
, that other emperor of France roue
, with the colors and shifted the air O
hattie AS a warrior he did no
: n,eaeure IN to the stature of those
4 who had preceded him on the thione
!, The defeat of the French army caih'
with the fall of Sedan, and the em
a / peror became an exile.
/ Then the mob in Paris and the ilis 81
! Of the empress. Dethroned ana US
g.acad Napoleon III. died In 1915
!, ,ater. the prince their son. SET gu
: WITH the British troops fDr ZiIu1sne
He never returned. A breecH-eiou, :,
snearman sent an assegai through -
- body and left him dead, face up 10 VI
10 burning sun.
- travellers in England sometimes q
"A a glip,,., 20 of the black-robed inquire
- the former empress, as she rides ioi :
- on missions of charity. Her mar
~ snow white, her face a study IN resi-
~ nation. For 40 years she, 100 mas oee
IN a Queen of Sorrow.
And now the tall, stately, black-ey'
- Ane1ie completes the trio, queen
" portugal then made dowager by
!, double tragedy, she is now, IKE u
=, GOOD Eueenie, an exile. Her last lar
~, we'll To her country was from the de'
- &c the royal yacht, which King carr
~ named Amelie, in her honor AS
- craft steamed away from nan
- Ouean Amelie looked down upon
y ssbarfolk standing mute-lipped on
~ sbore and cried, at is infamy!
IRE revoir."
80 Lfe's Vlcissitudes..
HE How uncertain the title to throne
,de nrincipality! Amelie, born TO De
lin cnean was the daughter OF the II
rorte de Paris. Her birthplace y
off. IN england. whittier the comte
est his countess had gone wheh frai
has gave them warning that the trl-co
Of could not longer give them shelter
nee When she had grown to maldehn'
FAR Carlos came a-wooing, ana IN man
her her his queen he gave to Portu
me. both a rose and thorn. :
INN before Portugal disposed OF n
der Manuel in a diplomatic way tn
her raigning mona7Uhs of the VIZ
washed, vineclad country mad
bis death tragically. Pedro V. fell
rea- tim to poison known TO the liys
,sn,t of East India Don Luis was Sd
,nds from a. like, fate only to die miseri
Iater on. When 1t came the time
= 70 can,os a man made mad by condltl
&c a,a,v rife on him in public pi
sbe ono shot moved the crown from
and los 70 the crown prince, another me
ham 1t on TO Manuel
She together that day.
ber 81 spread out my CLOAK 10 pro
.ohle Iouis Philippe after seeing my
.ron+ hand stretched lifeless on the G
- 80 iors /" said the heartbroken "
w ~ Arno,ia 10 the premier. Il saw
yoI. Ieveling a weapon at me, and tho
10. a. at fateful moment that at
aha NV son would escape and that "
grace die ike .ruo -, -, con !"
upon adopted couh1is on - .ossad %
fan. mel the widowed queen mother Sc
Car. the secrecy of her chamber In a
ace away from the capital. Her
hered to Lisbon were n. sonaS hos
t and when she went VIZ :, q.
,.s q, cent, where sleep her king and pl
!. use Now In Exile.
I, The When the recent revolution
: Soc. with sudden fury Amelie was OF