Show S EMPRESS EX-EMPRESS IS HAPPY Austrian Emperor Honors HerI Heras Her Heras I I as If She Were Still StillI I a Potentate S S Vienna Sept An 22 22 An interesting I conversation with Empress Ex-Empress EuI Eugenie Eugenie Eu Eu- I genie has been communicated to the I public by her intimate friend the Countess It seems that S- S on fl the occasion of or her recent visit f to Ischl the empress took as presents to Emperor Francis Joseph some borne S. S beautiful Louis XIV furniture ure some somer r p tapestry and a gold goM watch that S belonged to Napoleon III III but the em cm in the most delicate manner S. S I declined the gifts The countess re relates relates re- re lates that after the interview the cx- cx S empress was quite a changed woman S The members of ot her hen suite and those In her company heard from Crom her lips forthe for tor the t first time lime In many years ealS the word words I am happy happy Ills His majesty majesty 1 she said has the theS noblest soul filled with charming S goodness He lie Is Indeed a royal char char- acter lIe He stooped a as he ho kissed my hand lined an and when he s spoke the word majeste re fell Cell softly from his lips lip andall and andall all nil the past pat and all Its It sorrows vanished vanI van van- I h d as b by the stroke of a ma magicians magician's wand An intoxicating Illusion came caine cameI I over my spirit and for a n few short moments I felt as If I 1 were really still the empress of or th the French l Ills His look met mine as ns when time the glance of king rests reams on king As her majesty the railway station she he could scarcely conceal her hel agitation She had been watching watching watch watch- ing from the window for Cor a sight of the thc em emperor and when she saw MW him himat himat at last she murmured with a sigh II JI porte la It legion He lie carries carries carries car car- ries the time Je Legion lon of Honor The Thc first Impression lon was a sad sail one since the empress anti and her suite be- be the decoration had been given IJ by Marshal Ial hal rne MacMahon when president president dent but hut she was wa as given to understand that Napoleon r III himself conferred the grand cross croS on th the tho emperor c |