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Show FOUNDING THE SECOND EMPIRE. Two Picturesque Episodes In Period of Unrest. Walking about the streets, riding on 'buses, junketing up and down the river In steamboats, I was profoundly struck by the unrest among the people, peo-ple, their Intense hatred of emperor and empress. One day I caught a glimpse of Rochefort, carried aloft on the shoulders of a mob of students thronging the Boulevarde Saint Michel. I never saw a man looking so helplessly frightened as did the founder of the "Lanterne," then In its prime. Whether he feared the police or a fall I do not know. But his terror ter-ror was abject. In the summer time tho emperor paid a visit to Beauvals. On the chance of getting material for an article ar-ticle acceptablo In London, I journeyed thither with North Peat, who went down as representative of the Morning Star. The prince Imperial accompanied accom-panied the emperor, who drove through living lanes of people stretching stretch-ing from the roadway to the open windows win-dows of the topmost chamber. They came to see, but they would not re-' main to cheer. The occasion was the presentation of prizes gained at the local Lycee. Tho head prize was never delivered, the winner, a lad of 14, declining de-clining fo accept it from the hand of the hated emperor. Cornhill Magazine. |