Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-28

turned to hate were countless.
AS soon as she had a son they gave her
the vice OF avarice. Eugene was squeez-
ing the gold out Of France by stock-rig
the civil list.
Now. the $4,000 per month which she
had during seventeen years as pocket
, money did not all go for dress and the
art antiquities, which the republic later
confiscated. She made savings; and Ma
poleon was generous. In any case her
personal fortune-apart from her fabu-
ious Jewels, her Spanish property, in
heritances to come and unknown stocks
and bcnds-were thus valued by Loliee
just before Napoleon's death:
Houses Rue d'Albe, S1S0.0O0, mortgased
for 100000; house Rue de rElysee,
mortgaged for $400.000; the Jonchere viii
la, 100000: the SClferino domain. $780,
coo (mortgaged for 100000; Pyrenees
domain, s24O,0G0: the Biarritz villa. $780,
600. and $4,000 per year income from
investments in England The mortgages
were probably to raise funds for the re
turn; whether actually paid out or not,
before or after Napoleon's death, no one
will ever know. Her Marseille palace
and Vichy chalet were sold for the debts
of the civil list.
AS soon as she had a son they blamed
all wars on her. The disa strous Mexi-
can campaign was "Eugenie's war;" and
the Italian one of 1859 was to get Ma
poleon out OF France that she might act
as regent. She was alleged to think that
the interests of her son could only be
consolidated by successful war.
The Franco-Prussian disaster was
blamed on her because she feared that
Napoleon's growing liberalism was work
ing harm to the young princes Inherit
ance. Her alleged crime was to keep the
emperor in the field, intending to profit
by the first victory to set up the old
Bonapartist autocracy.
Then there was the odious SANDER con-
corning Napoleon's gravel, and the will
full refusal of Eugene and her doctors
to acquaint him with its threatening
gravity. So he dragged through the war
suffering physical torture as well as
moral doubt. Even 1 once innocently
helped propagate the probably forged
note in which Napoleon accused Eugene
with breaking her letter-patent to set UP
q rival government in Paris.
VanQuished, calumny pursued her as an
exile with the emperor in England. Suf-
fering awful pain and sweats and fevers
from uraemic poisoning, he finally con-
scented to an operation only to fit him for
a return.
He worked like a hero; doubtless
Eugene tried to protect him. But the
French believe that she sequestered him
from all Bonapartist henchmen not de-
voted to her sons supposed ideas-i. e.,
her own plans for an absolute empire.
They say that the eagle nevertheless
disentangled himself from the net; the
new coup detat was ready; the deputies
had turned out Theirs; the republic
scarcely existed, and all eyes were on
Napoleon. All but last minor operations
had been done successfully.
I'm a month We'll be on horseback
said Napoleon.
He would make Eugene an empress
again.
Do you understand the situation? Just
as hope smiled on her, despair struck her,
and SANDER. over the weeping wife. Kisses
Your faultv' All Eugenies fault, by
ignorance Of sick bed caution
To insure sleep after operations, Ma
poleon had been ordered choral. One
night he took it. The French believe
that he next time refused it; he desired