Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-06-03

junction and summoned parliament. She refused
to allow the king Of Italy to enter Rome. though
ne promised to lend France his army for the
rrivilege. She e~stranged Italy and offended Aus
tria, which might have Joined Napoleon against
Germany.
Quickly the star Of Eugene declined. Her
husband was taken prisoner at Sedan and rushed
into Germany The parliament she had sum-
moned against his order dethroned her and her
emperor. The glittering empire fell in a ire
mendous crash. Her life was threatened by
Apaches on the boulevards. In disguise, Doctor
Evans, the famous American dentist, helped her
to sneak out Of Paris to the seacoast, where a
British yacht conveyed her to England. Stripped
of her glory in a few weeks, Eugene settled in
a modest home given her by Victoria at Chisel-
hurst, England. Three years later Napoleon died
there of cancer of the stomach.
1t seemed as If fate, which had lavished all its
favors on Eugene, was now bent upon her de-
struction. Bereft of empire, husband, honors,
her cup seemed full to the brim. But the bitter
est blow of all was yet to fall upon Eugene. Her
son, Prince Louis, whom she brought up as heir
to the French throne, was killed in a petty war
against savages in South Africa. He was an
amiable, attractive youth of twenty-three, with
excehent parts, when a Zulu assegai found his
neart. The gay French had Knocked when he had
been sent to South Africa. They felt that En-
genie was making a play" to their welLknown
love OF martial glory. So in the cafes chantants
they sang:
"Loulou, Loulou,
He cnases Zulus."
But even the French cry Of mockery turnad
to an agonized wall of sorrow when the nrin,o
imperial was stricken down in a savage am.
buscade. 1t was a sad death. The party had
khoWledge OF the coming Of the sayages and
proceeded to mount their horses and gallon away
ThlnKtnQ that tho nriroa koJ ,oo.-A-, -, -
fish companions galloped off. Alas, the horse
used by Eugenie's only son proved FESTIVE and
ran away, leaving his rider to the mercy of thu
saVages, who did not know a prince from a nan.
per and who gave no quarter.
The women of the world who had once dressed
win Eugene now mourned with her. 1t was the
last OF the many blows sustained by the once
beautiful Mademoiselle de Montijo.
Then 1t was said that her fierce. impcnetrahlo
pride and ambition had lost her her son. He
had been wanting to marry a gentle English eirl
and Eugenie wanted him to marry a reignine
princess. She sent him to South Africa to s.,,,
rate him from his love. So, the high ambition
OF this Spanish woman raised her to the positiop
OF the greatest monarch in Europe and dropped
her to a state so lowly that even peasant women
pitied her forlorn plight.
She had been responsible for the death ~
Macmillan. the madness of Carlotta, the loss Of
the French empire and for the lives OF her hIls.
band and only son.
Even the widest French socialists now show
deep respect for the small, bowed figure, always
clothed in deepest mourning.
Such is the story Of the little, white. bent old
woman who moves among the English wounded.
She is of the past She is a living sorrow An
old woman, poor in everything that makes a
woman rich. save in sympathy. Her dearest da.
sire is to be forgotten.