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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
Josephine's Extravagance

Extravagance appears to have been Jo- sephine's one fault under the Empire. It is doubtful if she had given the Emperor any other grievance since she took her place beside him. on the throne. Once he cast her miiliner in prison for several hours to fiighten her out of her habit of extortion. But life Imprisonment would not have corrected the reckless expendi- lures of the Empress with her 500 chem ises. her new pair of stockings for each dressing. her 300 or 4oo cashmere shawls, some costing nearly s250o ,and her robes of lace for which she paid as high as $2o.00O each Mime. de Remdsat never en- tered dressmakers or milliner's, go when she would. that she did not find something in the making for .the Empress. Her annual allowance for dress rose as high as $0oOoO. but her credit being good. she spent as much as s22O,000 in year. Out of her yearly expenditures, however. she accumulated most of her jewelry, which represented at the time of the di- vorce an investment of nearly $1.0C0,000.
 Whenever creditors pressed and the in evitable time of reckoning came. the Elm press cried and the Emperor ragged, but not at her so much as at the tradesmen. Although he arbitrarily cut down their bills sO 40 and 50 per cent they were well enough satisfieb with the profit still remaining t9 start at once a. new cam paign of temptation and a new account with the Empress.
 The Emperors psacticed eye came to know the signals of her fis,inciai dis treas. but he never could induce her to cepfess at once the {ull amount Of. her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
Joseehine's Last Service

Napoleon weary and exasperated with the Czar's shifty conduct, suddenly turned to take up the hint which the Austrian government had dropped. For the task of opening the delicate negotiations, ne wished to select the most taetful and faithful ambassador in all his empire And his choice fell upon none other than Josephine, herselfl The Empress. as loyal as ever, did not hesitate to accept the strange duty. Inviting the wife of Met ternieh to Malmaison only two weeks after the divorce. she amazed that lady by expressing her earnest wish that her divorced husband might find consolation in a marriage with Marie Louise.
 Mme de Metternich was hardly less as- tonlshed when at a hall few days later Napoleon himself bluntly asked her If she thought the Austrian archduchess would marry him. The lady very properly de- clined to answer for another. But when the Emperor asked her if she herself would have him were she Marie Louise. Mme de Metternich. displaying candor that belied her wifely association with the most accomplished prevaricator Of his generation, replied most emphatically in the negative.
 When at length in the course of offi- cia1 discussions between the two empires 1t was plain that Austria was as willing as Barkis Napoleon took vote on the question in his council of state, and Ma rife Louise was elected. Josephine. how ever had enjoyed the rare honor of mak- ing the nomination of her successor In wedlock.
 Copyright, 1s1s-t4. by James Morgan).
 Next Sunday: The Mating of the Cor sican Artilleryman With Daughter of the Caesars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
INDIAN WARDS OF THE U. s.
 MAKE POOR USE OF PROPERTY

few concrete facts abstracted from the article on the wealth of the Indians of the United States. contributed to the Monitor, by Edgar B. Merritt, assistant commissioner of Indian affairs at Wash ington, reveal potentialities and possibl- ities far removed from the ordinary, says the Christian Science Monitor
 Contrary to the prevalent popular be- lief the Indian wards of the American Union are rich. not poor. There Is prac- tically enttailed for them today 72.146.54i acres of land, the value of which, fin It's partly or almost wholly undeveloped state is sG00 100000. This land is untaxed: 1t is increasing in value through unearned in- crement; 1t Is cared for by the govern ment without cost to the owners; the own CTS themselves are largely provided for at public expense: should their property be developed-should they be so taught. educated and uplifted as to bring their property mp to the standard now obtain ing all around them--they would be the greatest land proprietors in the world: they would be in fair way of becoming a landed aristocracy.
 Potentially they have enormous wealth within their reach; actually they are not making good use of it. Tho Indians not included in the five civilized tribes of Oklahoma number 229. 423: they own 9.6kSs- G50 acres of agricultural land. of which 7.775.542 acres are divided In severalty Of r' remaining unallotted. In addition to these holdings. they also own 2s,l56ll1 acres of grazing land. of which s,5t4l27 are allotted and 206l1.9S4 are unallotted. The use made of these lands. according to Merritt. is shown by the fact that of The the agricultural land they have cultirskS.. only 595.331 acres. Of the unallottad ar tribal lands, over io.O000o0 acres have been leased for grazing purposes
 The problem of the Indian bureau of the Government Is. of course. to bring the Indians up to the point of realizing their opportunities and making better use of them. In this direction some bold steps are being taken. It has become evident that the Indian must be removed from a position of dependence. The tribal system and the guardian system combined have in a great measure. deprived him of self dependence: their general tendency Is to pauperize him. Energy, prde ambition. responsibility must be awakened within him. To this end the head of Indian af- fairs and his assistants are now striving. The work may be lahorious and slow; many difficulties must be encountered and overcome; but If the one thought of lift ing the 1ndian out of wardship and eventually Into manbceN shar be kept sssadily ;, n,ri'v in 10 Olovev nn hl' ss; race
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

Wo year. saving the rest Of her h. come fer Ter grandchildren But when General Savary returned from settling those business matters with the Empress and reported that she had wept, the Emperor complained. you ought not to rave made her cry
 The completion Of his policy inauea- rated by the divorce now occupied Ma Ioleon's attention and he at once pressed his plans for a matrimonial alliance with some great reIgning house. list of the available prineesses of Europe lay before him like a military map But the widowernood of the most celebrated and powerful man of hls time, with the loftiest throne in the world at his be- stowal. aroused more fear than ambition in the hosoms of some of the eligibles Queen Louise, who had only lately re- turned to Berlin from her long exile thanked God in her maternal heart that her first born daughter was dead and safe from the possibility af being saerl- Iced to the eonquerof while the Aren- duchess Marie Louise of Austria wrote to reassure an afrNious friend that she was in no peril. as her father was too good to think of offering her up to the minotaur!
 Napoleon's own preference was to bind together the two empires of France and Russia in q marriage be-
 
 ander, however. was childless, like him. sell. and had only two sisters to be considered. Their mother hated the French Emperor, and when Alexander had come back from Erfurt in 1S0S. With Tallyrand's suggestion of a match the Dowager Czarina made such haste to rescue her only grown-up unmarried daughter that in eight days she had her betrothed to a little German Duke. the heir to the Duchy of oldenberg.
 Napoleon felt the rebuff but il did not deter him now from asking for the younger sister who was n mere girl In short dresses and with her hair down her back The Czar was caught be- tween his importunate ally on one hand and his mother and the entire Russian aristocraey on the other, and he par leyed for time. For two months he put off decisive answer to the de- mand which really had been made some time before the divorce was pro- nounced At last the imperial and im- perious widower sent an ultimatum, giving the Russian court 4s hours to say yes or no. But Alexander contin- ued to palter.
 Already. however the Emperor Fran cs of Austria. had frankly enterd his daughter Marie Louise, as an open candidate for the vacant throne. Met tefnlch, the Austrian Foreign Minister, had been camping on the trail Of the ulNofce TOT two years anu hoW ihtt IL had come he prepared to take advan- taee of it. He and the crafty politi- clans had no doubt that Napoleon was riding for fall but they shrewdly cal cnlated that the inevitable day of reckr oning probably was four years off Meanwhile Austria must keep in his good graees until the time came to snatch back the provinces he had taken from her A marriage alliance with him surely would stay his hand and at the same time weaken his political alliance with Russian, thus hastening his downfall. It was clver we'll thought out scheme on the part of the Austrian court--and 1t would cost only an 1S-year old girl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
The Divorce Campaign

For two years the Emperor hao "ies tied with the man, the monarch Wi'h inc husband. ambition with affection, the head with the heart Nor was Josephine hlind to that silent conflict between his emotions and his policies which had so long agitated her husbands breast. She dreaded to have him pass for moment beyond her spell, and she was begging him in her letters, throughout his ap- sence on the Prussian and Polish cam paign. to let her share his hardships In the camp and in the field.
 While the anxious wife waited for the return of her couriers. she alternately wan, and consulted the cards to learn from their mystic faces whether the hoped for summons was on the way. She simpatiently tore open one of his letters to read: T laughed at your saying that yon had married to be with your husband. I thought, in my ignorance, that the wi1e was made for the husband, the husband for his country, his fame and his glory. Again she received from him this chiding message: T am told you are always cry ing. Fie. How ugly that is! An Elm press ought to be courageous!"
 All the while the same superserviceable faction which, for it's own profit, had paved Napoleon's way to the life consult ate. and then to the throne, was eagerly plotting, in season and out, to have him marry again and obtain an heir to that throne by which its members lived. AL ! ways ready to do the dirty work, Fouche had gone to the Empress. either with or without the Emperor's sanction, and urged her to make voluntary sacrifice of her self for the sake of the empire. But when she asked Napoleon about it, he hotly denounced the meddling of the minister of police and. folding her in his embrace of his love.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
A Battle Won and Lost


 but Wagram seems to have decided the issue, when it confirmed anew his title to the vastest and richest estate in the world. The Empress did not miss the caIamitous significance of that battle tc her, nor fail to understand that in her husbands victory she has lost her fight. To be sure, his emotions were still on her side, and even yet fitfully strug- gled against the inevitable. Nearly three months after Wagram, and at the end of September, he was writing her once more in the old spirit of playful fond ness T warn you to look after your soon you will hear great noisei
 It was perhaps fortunate for them both that Josephine had not yet reached Fontainebleau when the great noise burst upon that palace on late October morning in 1869. The Emperor had tray eled from Vienna faster than the news of his coming and. the Empress did not arrive from St. Cloud until the evening. Her absence washed his spirits, and, when at last they met, it was under the influence of mutual constraint which SaNta tflcin oot1 HUI d iciic oett pi ciei- tions that would have only made harder the now unavoidable trial that awaited them.
 Already Fouche had seen the Emperor and bluntly warned him. There is not a marshal who is not considering how to dispose of your estate if we have the misfortune to lose you It is an instance of Alexander's leutenants eager for his kingdoms All the imperial Bonapartes had been for the divorce from the begin ming, and now even Napoleon's mother was saying: T hope the Emperor will have the courage this time to take the step which not only France but Europe awaits with anxiety. His divorce is an act of necessity
 After a gloomy fortnight at Fontain- bleau. in which the Emperor and Empress alike strove to avoid being left together alone, one for fear of having his pur- pose overcome and the other for fear of hearing it proposed. they entered Paris to find the chattering city busy with their affairs Worse still. Josephines creditors, alarmed by her sinking fortunes were clamorng for money, and Napoleon was amazed to learn that she was again f1oun- dering in debt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
Josephine's Spell

year afterward. while Talleyrand. Fouche and other agitators of the ques- tion were again pressing their .counsels upon him, and even stirring up a public aaitation for the divorce of Josephine, the sight of her one evening dressed for Klevee. with tender melancholy in her eyes, reopened the floodgates of the Em- perors memory and emotions. Catching her in his arms and crushing her beau stiful gown, he cried like child while he protested: NO. can never leave you!' He was so overwrought, as he sobbingly complained of the people who were tormenting him. that the Empress Induced him to lie down and let her hold the reception without him, after which che returned and stayed with him through A troubled night, when, we are told, he ] literally soaked his pillow with tears. As the agitators saw the Emperor passing again under the spell of his wife's charm and recoiling from the step toward which they were pusng him, Tal- leyrand expressed their iinpatence and disgust: What devil of man! How he yields to his impulse! Why can he not ctme to a decision and stop making us the puppets of his moods?'
 The Interruption of the campaign for |. new marriage was prolonged by the Empress journey 10 3ayonne. where, with her perfect tact, she greatly aided the Emperor in his rough task of talk apg the crown of Spain away from the Spanish royal family who were gath cred there. She showed herself as su- perior in manner as he showed himself E. supelioii in power to those princes born Rsn the purple and together thty over
 &heimed the Bourbons. Never had Ma .5cleon seemed lighter hearted with her than on that trip. when they ran races on the beach and he threw her into the waves with her clothes on.
 He vas stl her captive when the Austrian campaign of 1900 began, and he took her with him as far as strasburg. while hs wes bridging the Danube and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
1 w ] IEsG6.

occupied the room of the future King of Rome. he formed the long de- ferred resolution to divorce Josephine, and, marrying daughter of one of the ancient dynasties, provide an heir 10 his empire.
 As the victor of Wagram, in the pride of success and the respons1bll- ity of power, tread the ralace halls of the Hapsburgs, his determination rip ened that the inheritor of his glory and his conquests, should be at once child of a race of kings. He saw no other way to lift the imperial succession above the ugly jealousies and conspira- cies that had already divided the Bo- napartes and place it beyond the rival ry of the more ambitious marshals who stood ready to fight for the crown among themselves.
 Like his only companions in fame' he was childless, but he would not, Ike Alexander bequeath his kingdom 10 the strongest or, like Caesar, adopt nenhew True he had looked With Ia vor on the first born of his brother, Louis. but when the little fellow olea' in 1907. the Emperor did not transief his favor to the second son. nor yet +o tbe third. who was born the next wear. although this last child really was destined to be Napoleon III, to be the only successor his throne ever was to Ihave
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

debts. No! Nol' she protested to her eonfldants, when they advised her to seek relief in telling him the whole truth, 'he would kill mel" and she al- ways tried to spare herself by keeping back half the truth. T will pay the balance out of my saving" the child like spendthrift would promise herself. she whose fair fingers were formed only to be sieve for gold
 One day, when her red eyes were fly ing the unmistakable signal. the Elm peror said to Duroc as he pointed to the Empress and her day Of honor Those women have been crying I am sure it is debts. You try to find out what is the matter" Josephine at once sobbingly confessed to the grand mar shel of the palace that she owed ESQ., 900.
 ''Ah!' exclaimed the wheeling Duroc, 'the Emperor thought it was sl6o.oool"
 No. No." Josephine protested; but since I must tell you all. I swear it is cnly sl2o,o00r
 The crafty mediator next feelingly portrayed to the Emperor the despair or the Empress. "She is conscious of her fault, then?" the deluded husband said. So much the better. She must owe an oioimcus amount, possibly $2oo.oO0''
 But, sire Duroc pleaded, 'tit is only s12oOcor'
 "Only $l2o,0oo! the Emperor exclaimed. ooncealing his surprise and relief. You talk as if that were nothing Then he went to the repentent prcdigaI, scolded her gently and finished by coaxing her from her tears with the comforting as sufance come. come, my little Joseph inc; don't cry. The debts will be paid. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
Josephine, my destiny is stronger than my will. My dearest affections must yield.

tivities. When 1000 miles away from Paris, he wrote her, You must not go to tLe small boxes at the small theatres where, of course all the fun was-'ait does not become your rank. You must only go to the four principal theatres''- enaoting he&vy tragedies. prescribed by him-"and always to the principal box"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
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day appointed for the proceedings she carefully studied her speech. It had been prepared for her. but she made changes in the language and rewrote the announcement in her own hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

With the divorce of Josephine the tragedy of Napoleon's career very perceptibly deepens and his feet are seen to be forever planted in the down. ward path.
 MT. Morgan's story today is of Josephine as wife and Empress, of the long and painful divorce campaign that-preceded her dethronement, of the Emperor's final resolve taken in the very palace of Marie Louise, of the pathetic dignity with which Josephine bade farewell to her greatness and still more pathetic loyalty with which she forwarded Napoleon's plan to marry the Austrian archduchess.
 DATES AND EuENTS-AGE 3I-40 December B. 1S06-Birth of son to Napoleon by Eleanor Revel.
 May 1, 1S07-Death of Napoleon's fa- vorite nephew and probable heir.
 September 27, 1908 - Tallyrand broachsd to the Czar marriage al 1iance with Russia.
 $ July 6, 1S0S-victory at Wagram. r. October 26 1S09-Napoleon returned to France.
 November 22. 1sos-Aslsed for the hand of the Czars sister
 November 30. 1s0e-Announced his purpose to Josephine.
 December 15. 1So9-The divorce.
 January 2. 1S10-Josephine opened the invitations for the marriage Of Marie Louise and Napoleon.
 May 4, 1S10--Blrth of a son to Napo- leon by Mime Walewski.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
An Emperor's Helmet

Josephine lived wholly for Napoleon and his interests. Having no great ann bitions of her own, no desire for power or grandeur she did not meddle in poli- tics, but in the spirit of groeer's or bankers wife, she made it her main purpose in life to please her husband, look after his home and promote his success by being agreeable to his asso- ciates. Because she was the wife of an Emperor, whose home was palace, whose associates were kings, princes and dukes. her duties were no lighter and no less difficult.
 How this wearies me- she once ex- claimed T have not moment to my self. It would be better for me were the wife of laborer. Although dia- mond crowns and gilded salons cast their illusion over the scene of her splendid drudgery, Josephine could not have toiled harder had she been a laborers wife For three hours each day she shaved over her morning toilet, and thrice daily she changed her linen throughout A mob of servitors and courtiers surrounded her morning. .-~rl and night. She break lasted lunched and dned with them, and the repetition ef some dreary function was scheduled for each waking hour. Be gay Be gay," That was the imperial command always
 However, borne down under the burden of a crown. however ill she might be, and she was not physically strong, how ever hard her head ached never did Jo- sephine on her undending round of petty tasks, disappoint the Emperor with misstep, a wrong word or lacking smile. There never was an indiscreet remark, an intrigue. an act of favoritism on her part to embarrass her husband for mo- ment. He, who above all men valued every tick of the clock. never had to complain that she kept him waiting minute And when he was worn out by the cares of a crowded day, she. who never opened a book for her own enjoyment lay across the foot of his bed and read him to sleep in that voice whose tones unfailingly en- tranced him.
 No man. monarch or peasant. could ask for truer helpmeet. But the lord of the earth was without an heir. How often his sisters had taunted Josephine with natures unkindness to her! Once when she had triumphantly pointed them to her two children by her first husband, the Bonaparte women only turned the knife in the cruel wound by retorting: Yes dear sister, but that was when you were still yoing" And now she was past 45l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
The Dreaded Hour

Meanwhile Napoleon had in fact be- come father in the birth of Leon Revel, while Mime. Walewski hoped soon to pre- sent him with child. These experiences no doubt contributed to his resolve to seek lawful heir for his throne
 The long dreaded hour struck for Jose phine when Paris was in the midst of preparations for the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the coronation and while, from all the federate nations of the empire, Kings and Queens. princes and princesses were throngfng into the city. After silent. mournful dinner in the Tuileries, the Emperor and Elm press retired, to his apai tments, where. while she was holding the. cup of coffee which he had just passed to her, he spoke the words that for many days had been struggling for expression. The historian of the tragic scene in the Ierson of the pref<ct of the palace. sitting in a chair tlted against the wall of the corridor
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