The Washington herald., 1912-09-15

at the seashore and the summer resorts.
Nor is there any dearth OF udbits ana
gossip. One that has created q good
deal of talk is the domestic, infeltcity
of q couple. always considered ono OF
the happiest. and the tieing of. q second
nuptial knot by both husband and wife.
Col. Count Beroldingen and his coun-
tess, a former Miss Mary Kaupe. ma
tive Of New York. though already grand
parents. have finally come to the con-
clusion after all these years OF married
bliss, that they are unsuited to each
other and that a separation was the only
thing for them. No sooner said than
done. The courts raised no obstacles.
for reasons. Of course. best known to the
courts, and matters were furthered and
finished, with speed far more marvel
Gus and with greater haste than could
have been accomplished even at Reno.
So quickly. was ''the trick turned" that
the count once more Is happy bene-
dict'' and his ex-wife once more o
blushing bride.
Count Beroldingen, whose late father
served two Suabian kings as court
marshal. began his career as an officer
in the army of Wurtemberg. But soon
he took service as lieutenant In the
Second Prussian Ulan Guards Qancers).
ment to which he had belonged. the
Stuttgart Cavallery, owing to certain
occurrences that were not made public
for the good Of the service" suddenly
was differed anew from top to bottom.
A brother Of the countess. a Mr.. Kaupe
the family had returned to Germany
from America for a good while the heroes
of this romance being little ch!ldren-was
among the disciplined officers, and so was
the husband OF her sister. There were
many transfers. challenges to duels. and
divorce suits at the time, but 1t was
many years ago.
In Berlin Count Beroldingen prospered.
He was made a major Of the famous
Moabit Lancers. and later was given the
command over the Cassel Hussars. The
counts daughter at that time became
the wife of Count Lavish, an Austrian
magistrate, and his son lieutenant OF
the Prussian Life Guards.
Even busy Mrs. Grundy has not been
able to fathom the Beroldingen secret
and the ''raison d'etre'' for the divorce.
The wife now is again a countess. which
enables her to retain her crown OF nine
peaks Her second husband Is Count
Ekkehard Hahn. a former comrade OF
her first lord, but later court marshal
OF the Grand Duke Of Mecklenburg
Schwerin. whose foremost vassals the
Hahn family are.
The villa de San MartIno. on the Island
OF Elba, which Napoleon Is said to have
occupied during his exile, is reported to
have been purchased by the Marquis
RuspoH for $4,000. Doubts as to the
probability Of Napoleon having occupied
the house are allayed by an autograph
letter from Napoleon dated at the villa
San Martino. Queen Alexandra paid two
visits to the villa. and on both occa-
sions inhabited the rooms once occupied
by Napoleon. / can hardly place con-
fidence in this sale OF Napoleon's villa
and effects. / have seen the villa and
its furniture Certainly the villa exists
and Napoleon lived there. but only for
a short while. In the memoirs Of sew
eral members OF the Emperor's entour-
age there are found references to San
Martino and the repairs which Napoleon
had made before he occupied 1t. The es-
tate Of San Martino occupies the center
of the island. When the Corsican be-
came possessor of the estate he found
nothing there but ruins and a cellar half
filed with old but poor wine. Napoleon
Joked a good deal about his estate with
its wine cellar, and n!cknamed il ST.
Cloud.
On June /, 1914. Napoleon, arrived at
San Martino. and began the necessary
repairs to make the villa habitaole. He
at that time had no thought OF return
ing to France and had the villa recon-
structed as a future residence. Napo-
leon aided not only in supervising the
reconstruction. but he took a hand HIM
self. One of the commentators remarks
that he found the emperor one day busy
tearing illustrations from historical
book on Egypt and pasting them on the
walls of his lounging room.
No document seems to exist that per-
mits the belief that Napoleon ever lived
in the villa. He could not have taken up
his residence there until the 18th of De-
cember. when the repairs were finished.
And since he left Elba in February he
could not have lived at San Martino
longer than one month at most. Again,
as II is easy to follow the movements OF
Napoleon by his correspondence, he
could not have lived any length OF time
at San MARITIME, because there is no doc
ument in existence dated from that
place. In the history OF the Island OF
Elba," by Nanzi, dated 1875. and the
preface is dated 1914. not once does the
author mention that Napoleon lived at
San Martino.
There seem TO be doubts as to the au-
thenticity of the furniture of the villa.
At the death Of Pauline Borghese. nee
Bonaparte. the villa passed into the
hands of Jerome and another OF Napo-
Icons brothers. Then It became the
property OF Prince Demidoff. who in 1852
constructed a 'Musee Napoleonien'' be-
side the villa. All the Napoleonic souv
enirs were placed in the museum, but
in 1881 the museum, its contents and the
villa itself were sold to a Florentine,
NJ. Guiliani. What souvenirs of the
emperor can remain?
A deputation of the Spanish Wireless
Telegraph Company went to Miramar
Palace near San Sebastian. the other
day, offering King Alfonso a fine motor.
car to which Is attached a complete ap-
paratus of wireless installation that will
enable him to communicate with any one
he pleases, wherever he may be, by
means of Autobiography. Alfonso ac-
cepted the. gift with delight, examined
the car and apparatus with great interest
and began to use II Immediately, waiting
to Premier Canalejas on
the birth of little daughter. The wire
less car is a good companion piece for