1>AGE TWO
EMPRESS CHARLOTTE ONE OF
HISTORY'S TRAGIC CHARACTERS
Never Recovered Reason After Execution
of Emperor Maximilian in
Mexico iu 1S67
When Charlotte; once empress of
Mexico, died at her chateau iiea>
Brussels. Belgnmi, recently there
came to a close one nt the most tragic
careers in Europe's political history,
for her mind had been clouded ever
since she heard <:i" the execution of
he i husband, Maximilian, at Quaretaro.
Mexico, in 1807 She was past
SO when she died.
Beauty ftgrj love in more than ordinary
measure and brilliant ambitions
of imperial splendor and power
marked the early years of Chat
lotte, one-time empress of Mexico
and one of the most tragic figures in
modern history.
Then rebuffed by emperor and
pope, whom she beseeched to save
her crumbling dreams of empire, her
beloved husband dead before a firing
squad, despair beat her down
and for more than half a century she
lived in madness, unmindful of the
changing worM. amid the shadowy
delusions of a make-believe court.
A daughter of Leopold 1, king of
the Belgians, she was born June 7.
1840. At the age of seventeen, when
sue was married to Archduke Maximilian,
brother of thg Emperor Franz
Joseph of Au-tt: .. she was a beautiful.
graceful and gentle girl, of
courtly and gracious warmer.*., with
deep intelleclua! attainments. It was
a genuine love match and their life |
in the exquisite palace Mi miliar. !
near Trieste, was an idyll of glamor- J
ous romance.
It was out of this happy setting j
that Charlotte stepped when she he- j
came Empress of Mexico.
There are few more pitiful stories'
than that of the fantastic Mexican
adventure, horn of the brain of Napoleon
II. which brought dcavh.
madness and failure.
The French emperor schemed to set
up a new empire in the New W orld.
French troops captured Mexico City, j
for the United States was embroiled
in civil war A delegation of Ivlexi-j
can nobles ..offered Maximilian a
throne;
He hesitated. Life .v Mirnmar with
a bcautifal wife satisfied him Ch&r,
J iotte, history dechPr. s, practically
Nv made the decision lor him. She was
Ambitious and ^he title of empress
f!i3cii>v'.1 ed her.
Maximilian was gi\ c n what he considered
proof i-bat the Mexican-, people '
wanted him. He nevvprcd and in May.
1864, he end iMunloiU on-, red the
v - . - as i
*"3? * in.. .-11 r H'lll'Il
cruiser?a ready-vuado emperor ami '
empres- hafidcd by a French mic r u.
a people with whom they had no kin- !
ship .'i" blood or. mind.
The new monarchy vent we?I at :
first. French troops supported it j
French officials helped lo straighten
out financial problems, Maximilian |
and Charlotte were sincere and indefatigable
in their improvements,
and reforms. His scholarship and
earnestness and Charlotte's charm
and tact won '.hem many friends and
aroused sympathy among the Me:xC
cans.
But the Liberal element carried on
im unceasing guerilla warfare. Maximihan
had. beer. <1 escribed as weak,
cnrf'-fllnfjhuy P'fidVn- ^rA.v.Mr-S.": :?-?
cr.isek Viut Charlotte was made oi
sturdier ~t;uf. When an uprising
whose consequence* would have been
liisa.-iiuns threatened it \va> Charlotte
who wont, without her emperor,
to the old capital of Yucatan and
by her preser.ee. kncv.|feilge of the
political situation. and energy averted
the dan ire*.
Th-.' civil war in the United S:attended
and American stalesnier bethought
Themselves vf the Monroe
Doctrine Xn pole on iil soon saw it
advisable to withdraw French Iroopfrotri
Alexici-. Instantly the situation
changed. -in a rex. Liberal leader o
Mexico, had beer in charge of mere
, hands of giieridas. Xp?v he had behind
iis'.n a united army and he ck>>od
in on Maximilian.
Fiction nor history reveals no
more poignant episode than Ohalotte's
flight to Europe for aid when
she recognized that the empire waf
doomed. Maximilian, with the mixture
of poor judgment and scrupulous
honesty that seems to have been
characteristic, felt he could not go.
After sleepless nights and hopeless
days Charlotte confronted Napoieon
III. .She wanted him to reconsider
and lend her emperor the support of
his troops. She met a cold refusal.
At the close of her interview, her
pride, won nana by her abasement before
one whom she considered her
Inferior, asserted itself, and she was
heard to shriek: viJ ought never to
have forgotten what I am and what
you are. I ought not to have for-:
gotten that there is Bourbon blood
in my veins, and should not have
disgraced my descent by lowering
myself before a Bonaparte and be-1
jng led away by an adventurer." |
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STATE SURVEY
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The following bib- of stale-wide 3
imcvst were introduced in che house
of representative-. Frid.iv morning:
| Kel?tal live stale-wide primary law,
<c.n wlidation of the slate fisheries
com mission with the lieparime..;: of
' cor. v i-vAtinn ar.d a bill by i\Ir.
of Surry to equalize taxes and provide
for a . ix mouths school tc.rr<i.'
1Th? slate senate on Friday j
confirmed the tgroowing board ofj
j tin lee? ?t the Appalachian Normal
'school: J. M. Barnhardl. \Y. C. New I
lr :iu. Eugene T ran sou. G. !I G itliei.
H. ii. Sullivan. Thomas C. Bowie.
T. *1. Coffey and Miss Ccl-.-te Iienkel.
Cranberry special to the Johnson
City Chronicle: The owners <>f the
Cranberry Iron m nes. which have
been closed nearly all the time for
the past f.?ur years, are making ex-,
ten. ive repairs on the buildings and
i machinery here, getting ready to rej
open about March 1st. This means a
j Jot to Cranberry and the surroundi
ing country, r.s ihey employ a great;
i number of men in the mines, offices
Hand abound the plant- The Cran-j
I berry iron ore is known by everyone'
: hi r. - ii'iia punness iu tiie best iron j
j tn the Unite*:! States.
Novtl Carolina will have seven!
new judicial districts, a total of 27, (
i the bill in; reduced by Sen-.tor |
I Smith, of Stanley, and reported fa- j
vorably by the jsaierai assembly joint |
I committee on courts and judicial disI
tricts becomes a law. Decision to
j re cornmeitd pa -age of the bill came
j after si \eral days' consideration of
the problem of court congestion that
aisc hp. confrented several otliei 1
legislatures. Last session the situation
was temporarily relieved by pnsrgv
of the nieigoncy judge act
which will expire next month.
The general assembly last Thursday
received the Croat Smoky Naiionpi
Dark bill. The sill was introduced |
ui the House by Netties-, of Bun-|
combe, and Squiies, of Caldwell, and |
in 'he seriate by i\bbs. of Buncombe. !
It provides for three new members!
of the national park .vommfcsion au-1
th'oiv'ed by t.?u special session of j
] trj } and seeks a bond is-ue ef $2,-'
OOO.OOO for the purpose of acquiring
iw the i>i ?? posed p:"k 1 ?stric*t.
which -\r< in iiu- mountain area i>n j
iiH* Tonnes .ee iiri?-. frank A. Liniu-y. !
i-i Jj8?oir.\ is a im-nibev of the park j
commission.
An i nv'??111"i ? <> 1? of properly values
a. Imtwn a the counties is one of the
e, ont?ni elements n the equitable
distr.hu sir. of the propbsed oqualisaV
i'ri/i of $2,.>00.000. State Su|h ? iatt
'v?ien: or Pitt* Instruction A. 1'. t
A ilea nt appropriation? j
committee of the general ai-sembly S
hast Thursday. Whih; h'ui ehav^ra
with the responsibility foi writ inn;
th< tli;*rihution bill, members of the
' nmnttees on a pp ro pri at io ns
wanted sc-me information about Mr
Aden's plans for distributing this
y, Uefore they voted on the bill
1 which will eaWy a million dollars 'in
| additior. :o this Cum!. Mr. Allen sugg
sied this equalization of values
; eohUi he he ( cured ihnoigh establish- j
, mt'fv. {??. a iii-x vommi.-sj-jn. at:
1 tarhed to the do part me at of vevetme,
j winch juljust values as between
I the (different counties. He said this
' cc^MimT^joix- or bureau Wouid ; he a .
! lull lime quo and would make a <h?rsi- :
: plet < .vtiidj of all t'-'. tors entering I
into the valuation of property in all
counties. ;-that. those valuations
voafij '.beas' the basis of iii-trifilling
this fund. It would take at
j IvaH a vc-nc to get fr.e first ad.iv.st-j
J meni made. said the state superinton- j
j debt. He suggested thai for the first}
1 yriir ore million and a "naif dollar5!
1
ho distru.v.tod exactly as it has boon
distributed in the past. That would!
mean that the ("unties which have j
|eon getting .-irate aid from the equa l
i ligation fund would gel at leas; as
1 mii>b next >ear as tho>- got last year.
: remaining million dollars, Mr.
{ Allen suggested char $200,000 be set
: to aid transportation of chiljd-.v,.
in the different counties.
j iilhuk walnut logs; suitable for cuti
ting into veneer bring from $150 to
?200 ' thousand board feer, when
fro'rti IS to 21 inches in diameter at
the small end.
Attendants later found her on the
j floor unconscious.
The pope had bJessed the expeJ
ditioxi to Mexico. It was to him
-Charlotte next turned. She got no
j help there.
I After creating a scene in the Vatican.
Charlotte, obsessed with the
fear everyone was trying to poison
her. was found wandering the streets
of Rome, washing her hands in the
fountains and babbling incoherently.
She was taken to the palace at Miramar,
which she had left so radiantly
happy, and pronounced incurably insane.
Meanwhile, with Charlotte's
name the last word on his lips, Maxi-.
rnilian was shot to death by a firing j
j squad in Mexico.
" ?.s -r-:-p*y-)pri~ir<" ~ -' * J ? * ,' 't it^ i~y jftti i' iTCTr.
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rHE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EYE
EWE LAMBS NEEDED
IN SHEEP INDUSTRY
Raleigh. Fab. V-?The sheep industry
of North Carolina needs all]
the good ewe lambs that are pro-1
du-:ed this year. There is shortage j
of breeding ewes and since the out-1
look is good fvi both sheep and wool,!
the ewe laiubs should fee saved to j
buihl up the breeding flocks
"Though sheep producers have ex- >
panded their flocks and the supply ofj
laihbs for 11*27 is larger ti|tt for!
1920. the market oiulonk for iambsand
wool appears fairly good." . says j
R. S. Curti -. animal husbandman at !
State College. "With this in mind, ij
feel that our farmers should save the i
best half of their ewe lambs either to J
increa.-e their own flocks or to start i
others."
Prof. Curtis states that recent
figures show that there are only 65i000
sheep in North Carolina at this
time, whereas in 1900 there were
300,000. This same situation exists
over the entire south This means
that breeding ewes will be scarce
arid high and the only way to replenish
them in a practical way. under
Xorth Carolina conditions^ is to save
the best ewe lambs.
Some of the leading farmers of
Edgecombe county have found that
cl\dep are the mcst profitable farm
animals. In reports made by the
county agent of this county, sheep j
h;.ve never yet tailed to pay a profit
when handled with any care at all. i
tie aserts that sheep will pay better j
than hogs and ho has figures from a{
parallel demonstration in sheep raising
and hog raising to prove his conten
tion. ;
With the outlook rather gloomy for (
ill kinds of crop production. Prof, s
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