Show LONG SUFI ering OF UNHAPPY CARLOTTA WILL SOON BE ENDED N n carlotta the wife of maximilian the austrian archduke who conquered mexico has been insane since napoleon Napo leop III refused her pleas that ae aid her husband who was finally captured and shot she Is now dying POOR CARLOTTA IS DYING unfortunate widow of maximilian can not live many days calling for her dead husband car jotta widow of maximilian once em geror of mexico is dying in her prison the chateau de benchat near brus gels she still holds a mock court dally daily fancying herself yet empress of mexico tor for she has been bereft of reason for thirty seven years to humor her the attendants pretend that she he presides over their entertain ments carlotta was seventeen when she became Maxi maximilian s bride in 1857 it was a love match and the ten years of their wedded life were a continuous honeymoon but maximilian was over thrown captured led out behind a hill at daybreak and shot by the execl tion guard before the capture of the emperor the empress pleaded with napoleon III and with the pope to aid her bus hus band her prayers were unanswered the first symptoms of mental derangement ran gement were manifested on the day on which sue had her last inter view with napoleon her mania is harmless and by hum oring her belief that she is still em ein press and in a palace in mexico her attendants find her easy to manage with the limited funds allowed her by her family she has always found much fault because the palace as she styled the castle that Is really her prison was not kept up in better style king leopold seldom sees her it Is a public scandal that he dissipated her fortune the most pathetic feature of em ein press carlotta s fate is her hal lucina tion that her husband Is alive she talks of him frequently and often begs begs courtiers to send her husband to 0 o her at once why does he stay away from me 00 10 long she asks pitifully |