Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-10-17


opcd, the medical attendants pronounce
ing berdisease 70 be smallpox--ihst' Ter.
rible mGlady which science had not then
taught mankind how 20 c0unteract Or
ameliorate, and which hnd already
found one victim IN the imperial family.
In the person OF the young Archduchcss
Joanna.
Bitter. indeed. were the tears shed by
the cpusclencc-strickcn empress ovei
that poor dlstgured fuco--'hnt face.
lately so frli Of life and bcauty--hu oh
ject Of dellght 20 every eye. OF love 10
every heard How miserable now
seemed all her schemes Of ambition for
this lamented olid, the innocent VIC
tim OF her worldly policy end supels
siluoua wcnkncssl Win the prayers
which she offered up Tor her recovery
she made solemn vows 70 seek only for
her children virtue and happiness in
future. Instead OF TINT worldly aggtan.
dizemcnt which had heretofore been
her chiet aim.
How wen she Kept the vows and
promises MADE beside thai bed % death
let history tell--hietory dark win the
fate OF the unfortunate Marie An
toineie, ana polluted with the record
OF her career who, IN less than year
from this period her AMBITIOUS mother
aaerinceu AT the same shrine whither
iosepnH, Al unwillng Vlctim, had been
LED bcfore her.
Inougn the physiclnns allowed none
except the necessary aitennRnt9 10
enter lhe apartment OF their patient;
~, N, ~ ~ ~, Mpu'u nv W SNotuSsu
her avn bonis shs .hr,,nistn.. hes
medicine. and aoothed Win fond Iowa
ina cuS,i,ious ,,,,r,,,,,rs ~ natr ,,,3 H.
Rnnity that feli ram her mar Josonha's
iips-nnd when ~" hrief ner,c co,tesi
drew 10 a close her bosom bitiowod tht
diving head OF tho sufferrr md olos"f
with eentic bnnd tbo.c tandey ayes, bst
were never morn to sbcd NOR lovina
ligbt upon nor bcart
nut wben tbe lac, hr,otb ,.o.
hushcd in dcatb mo ,,ntbc,
sank beneath tho ,err,i,e heroa,,en,snt
Many wore the wo,nds yhici, in III,
course on hsr .nicndi1 ,,i,,,r,bsn,
career Mod nierce1 the notis I'M, AZ
Marie Therrgn mi ,hia i,st hln,,
struck deoncet ~ tho,n ali Not,,r,
could suatain berselI no inn,er M
the empress was eorrlca fnIniIn,. from
the chamber of dcoti, 10 iia dnu,n IL
heipinasnnss ma oy.at,o ~ ,lo,G,,, -,
thnt dreadful malay ,vhicb MI AZ
stroyed INC iif, ~ No. oSiiG "1N
Tborc wos rno,,r,ir,, ond ia,,a,,a,l,,
through thn innd y6r Inc ",,oti'nr ~
nor pcople"--bfit 10 v,bn unn,ns a.,
bruisod rood internnacd bia bcoiins
ha1d 10 ,nv, ma In A. -, ~
hnl ~ al La
strurt,g hv M nast n,,,',snS - ~
roy mi bun,tiv s,,t,p,issi,,a ~ ~,
bana ,,,htci, a. tx, bad nhas,,,,a, ~.
''''''N "'''N' ~ wv '"' '""''e"Vu "'n
on tho eighth day after the death OF
the Young princess Joeopha, the impcri
81 vault OF the C0puchlns was opened
10 humlt funeral train, and she wht
q hriof time before had entered II with
| trembling fear and forehodlng was nov
borne thlther, silent and insensihle. Il
| her Inst rest beneath the frotted mar
monles performed over that youthful
t9rm, put lhey terminated az length
the Unat prayer was auid-tho last chan
/ WIZ Aulg-tnr lnst Wrenth or moons,
arose from th9 eWinglnE censor ana
the young bride or Ferdinand nlrpt
ppNlue the hintcf whose tato had been
so similar 10 her own
| The pageant slowly dlsnppcnred-but
one individual sun fingered beside the
| tomb. ana aH he stood leaning abstract
] odly against the Costly marble, the
light from the burning tapers revealed
| the noble figure of Count palinanpff,
the youthful Inflated lover OF Josephn.
AZ he stood beside the ashes Of her ho
l.. say