Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-12-02

will not be subjected to some such
frightful indignities as those which
characterized the last revolutionary
outbreak in Barcelona, when the mob
having sacked the converts and mon
asteries. tore the dead monks and
nuns from their tombs, paraded them
about the city, either whole or piece
neal, exposed them to every sort OF
outrage, and ended by setting them up
in grotesque positions at the ruined
entrances of the sacred buildings
from which they had been taken.
Ever since Amelie's husband and
eldest son we're assassinated she had
lived In utter terror lest her only re-
naming son. Manuel H., should share
their fate. For herself, her own safety
and welfare. she cared little. Those
| who know Amelie realize that when a
cruel death claimed her husband on
that terrible afternoon in February.
! 1906, her heart was quite broken. and
the only interest left for her in life
, lay in her son, Manuel. The domestic
life of King Carlos and Amelie was
) utterly unclouded and the queen was
the happiest of wives and mothers
Nothing has hurt her more cruelty
than the assertion made so often that
King Carlos was murdered by the peo-
pie, especially by the Republicans, on
account of his thefts from the public
treasury and because of his immorali-
ties. The truth is that Carlos was
free from any feminine entanglements,
devoted as any lover to his beautiful
wife and that he was killed not by
reason of his thefts from the national
treasury, but because he was endeavor-
ing to stop the wholesale robbery of
the national funds by the leaders of
the two great political parties Of the
kingdom.
Tried to Help the People.
Amelie has been obliged to submit
to seeing the instigators of the muir
der of King Carlos and the crown
prince not only unpublished, but even
occupying positions of influence and
rank. Indeed. she was brought face
to face with them almost daily and
had to remain silent for the sake Of
the young king.
She was debarred from rewardinf
those who had endeavored to defent
. her husband on the day of his assas
sination and could not open a Portu
guese paper without finding its col
umns filled with examinations of he
: dead husband, which she was power
less to oficially or publicly deny.
Since Amelie. then a slender younl
woman renowned for her exquisite
,. beauty, came to Portugal a little owe
. "a years ago, she has done nothin
!. but good. Out of her own persona
fortune she has had built and er
dowed homes for crippled children, OF
. phan asylums, homes for the blind an
public dispensaries.
Marie Amelie is possessed of a su
ficiently large fortune of her own {
{. have rendered her wholly independer
of the Portuguese treasury. Her ow
{ extravagances consisted of her man
s charities, and that from her ow
, purse she returned to the Portuguese
. government money which 1t was a
serted had been advanced to her hu
s. band, the late king, but which he di
d not in reality owe. 1t will be realize
that Portugal has driven from her 80
e wise. good and energetic princes
q who spent her entire married life
working for the welfare of her peop
"a woman toward whom they shou
be filed with feelings of gratitud