The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-05

to allow the king of Italy to enter Rome. though
ne promised 20 lend France his army for the
privilege. She e~stranged Italy and offended Aus
tria, which might have joined Napoleon against
Germany.
Quickly the star of Eugenie 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 tre-
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
IaVors on Eugene, was now bent upon her de-
struction. Bereft OF empire, husband, honors,
ner 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
amlanle' attractive youth of twenty-three. with
excellent 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 well known
love OF martial glory. So in the cafes chantants
they sang:
"Loulou, Loulou,
ne cnaSeS ZuluS."
But even the French cry of mockery turnaa
10 an agonized wall OF sorrow when the nr,nce
imperial was stricken down in a savage am.
ouscade. 1t was a sad death. The partv had
knowledge of the coming Of the sayages and
proceeded to mount their horses and gallon away
thinking that the prince had mounted. his Eng.
iish companions galloped on. Alas. the horse
used by Eugenie's only son proved FESTIVE and
ran away, leaving his rider to the mercy of the
saVages' who did not know a prince from a nan.
per and who gave no quarter.
The women of the world who had once dressaa
with Eugene now mourned with her. IL was the
last OF the many blows sustained by the onca
beautiful Mademoiselle de Montijo.
ihen 1t was said that her fierce. impenetrabIo
PRIDE and ambition had lost her her son. Ha
had been wanting to marry a gentle English girI
ana Eugene wanted him to marry a reignjng
princess. She sent him to South Africa IN sana'
rate MIN from his love. So. the high ambjtior
OF TINS spanish woman raised her to the position
Oh the greatest monarch In Europe and dronnsd
her 10 a state so lowly that even peasant woman
pitied her forlorn plight.
she had been responsible for the death =,
the madness of C~arlotta. the losa =,
the French empire and for the lives OF her bus.
band and only son.
Even the widest French socialists now shov
deep respect for the small. bowed figure. aIwavs
clothed in deepest mourning.
Such is the story of the little. white. bent ola
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 j
woman rich, save in sympathy. Her dearest da.
sire Is to be forgotten.