Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10

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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
magnif1cence of Windsor palace. Once
she was the autocrat of fashion at the
imperial court. She lived to see the
Tuileries palace invaded by mob and
to find herself forced to fee for pro-
lection to the house of a friendly
American citizen, DR.. Thomas w.
Evans, then resident of Paris, and
later to embark at midnight at Deau-
Vile. on yacht flying British colors.
Eugenie's Brief Triumph
Eugenie's father was 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
riage in the cathedral of Notre Dame.
Paris had a round of fetes that lasted
for a fortnight.
Eugene was born in 1926. She was
twenty-seven years old when she be-
came an empress in 1853. Three years
thereafter 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 a 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 ZuIuland.
spearman sent an assegai through his
body and left him dead, face up to the
| burning sun.
Travellers in England sometimes get
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 study in resig-
nation. For 40 years she, too, has been
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
well 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 infamyI Au
revoir!'
| Lies Vicissitudes.
How uncertain the title to throne or
prfncipalityI 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.
1 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 a poison known to the mystics
of East India Don Luis was saved
from a like fate only to die miserably
| later on. When 1t came the time for
Carlos a man made mad by conditions
drew a rife on him in a public place
One shot moved the crown from Car
los to the crown prince. another moved
1t on to Manuel. Father and son died
together that day.
Il spread out my cloak to protect
Louis Philippe after seeing my hus
band stretched lffeless on the cush
IONS" said the heartbroken Queer
Amelie to the premier Il saw a mar
leveling weapon at me, and thoughf
in that fateful moment that at leasI
my son would escape and that would
die like a true FTenchwoman for my
adopted country and my son.
When the crown had passed to Man
uel the widowed queen mother sought
the secrecy of her chamber in a pal
ace away from the capital Her vis.ts
to Lisbon were infrequent, excep
when she went with bowed head II
the vaults in the Cathedral of St Vim
cent, where sleep her king and prince
Now in Exile.
When the recent revolution burs
| with sudden fury Amelie was on he