Year: 1873

/ The news that came over the wires to us


yesterday afternoon, announcing the sud
| deh death of the ex-Emperor of France, in


his quiet exile home in England, caused lit
tie comment. seareely the death of any
man SO widely known could have occurred
and been received with such feeling of in
difference. Yet, had this news flashed
across the continents q couple of years ago,


1t would have unsettled the money market


Of every metropolitan city, and, perhaps,


have caused a financial panic,


The career of Louis Napoie on has been
an extraordinary and a romantic one, From


poverty to throne, and from throne to


outlawry, is a transition very seldom heard
of outside OF France. Yet the same causes


that made Louis Napoleon Emperor after


ward drove him into exile.


There was nothing 30 remarkable about


Napoleon as q man as there is about the


French as q nation-a restless people, full


of contradictions, impatient at routine and


order.


There is NO reason why the grandchildren


Of those who beheaded the lovely Marie
Aptoinette should not e-erect monarchy in


the person of the nephew of Bonaparte, or


Why they, in another mood, should not


drive that monarch into exile or to death,


as they have done every ruler they ha We


had for hundred years, and then shatter


the Column Vendome to sigRalise the


breaking Of power.


1t was much to Napoleon that he was the


descendant OF great man, and it was as


unfortunate, perhaps, for him that the red
cap is as potent In it's inspirsto in Paris to-
day as it was when the maddened populace


struggled to possess the heads that rolled
down from the guillotine that they nigh


lap the blood that gushed from the dissev-
cred arteries.


UnQuestiOnasly LOUIS Napoleon was a
firm, judicious, discreet ruler of his people,
yet he had more Of fnesse than greatn ess;
he had more knowledge of the weak side
of the French character, and how to con-
troll it, than q conscientious regard for the
good of his people. Thus he fell, as IN any
'other men have lonesome nearer home
through the ambition of others reacting
upon or rejecting from those very traits of
character.


Said Victor Hugo: "Louis Napoleon has
deceived the French people twice-frst,
when they took him for a fool, and again
when they took him for genius" This is


as honest a tribute as could be rendered by
any Rrenchman, though it is the utteranee
of one who has spent third of lifetime


In hating him.


The connection of louis Napoleon with


the late Archduke Macmillan, when it is


written-ss it will be, now that he is dead


Will show the character of the former il no


enviable light, for on his head will rest the


responsibility of the blood Of one who was


nothing else than the victim of his dupl-


city. The diplomacy of St. Cloud was more


infamous than the muskets of Guerra tero


were cruel.


If he had lived Louis Napoleon might


have been recalled to France, in some


changeable mood of her people, and thus
have lived part of his uncle's history ever
again. And the young Prince Imperial,


now rapidly ripening into manhood, may,
without committing any outrage upon pre-
eedent, sit on the throne of his ancestors.
What the future has in store for France
only miracle can determine. But il there


is an unhappy being living to-day it is the
poor little, restless, old, gray haired man
who stands tremblingly at the head of the
French nation in the place of the booted
and spirited exile who died In England yes
teIdaye