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' surroundings. When, upon the as­sassination of the Empress, the court ; went into mourning, Frau Schratt I was seen but little. Shortly the old I intimacy #as openly resumed, but it j was impossible to continue malig- I nant about a friendship that length­ened into old age, and the sting of criticism gradually died out. At Schoebrunn Castle, Frau Schratt ap­peared nearly every afternoon to keep the Emperor company for an hour or two. In turn he delighted to call on her at her town house as a private gentleman, where he could meet a few friends of his own choos-* ing, and not guests imposed on him by etiquette or reasons of state. Pol­itics was never discussed. Frau Schratt had her own town house and her country house, together with a goodly allowance, but it never was objected that the Emperor was lav­ish with her and she had the dis­cretion not to make her ostentation a national scandal. As a soldier, the Emperor ' was beloved of his army. In a crushing reverse by the French at Solferfcio he suffered such humiliation that he is said to have so wished to die with his men that he stood motionless in the fire of a battery hoping to be struck down. But none of his re­verses made him any the less popu­lar at home. In recent years he interrupted his winter rides, but each spring found him on horseback again, and he at­tended the army maneuvers to the last. In the field he was the em bodiment of indefatigable energy Three or four horses a day he wou wear out riding in a gallop to t foremost front of a reserve and fr wing to wing to acquaint him with the last tactical details. His popularity reached beyond army. He was tr people and especia tall, gaunt figure every Viennese, the streets ungu the salutations of If it became kno; leave the city a c* gate to see him imperial, yet de years he held we. the common peop of his subjects el for the righting MOOSE A N D J D EA D J m (BY A. P. LINCOLN (N election just pas.^ of at least onej political partif Progressive per cent, oj court, Pej State order Ti seps fail lej The Fitzgerald Stq for Real V<ilue\ • ? does mak difference w