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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-28
DEsEREr EVENING NEWS: TUESDAY. DECEMBER as,

gan. which was so highly appreciated
that another selection was rendered by
the gentleman.
President Brimhall then delivered
his annual address, which was re-
ceived In a very appreclatlve manner
and very favorably commented upon.
The Boshard and Pyne brothers
quartette followed with popular
selection.
Hon. Reed Smoot spoke briefly upon
the necessity of each doing well the
work that came to him to do in the
various avocations OF life and urged the
| teachers to strive for success in their
chosen calling.
After two more songs by the Boshard
and Pyne brothers. benedictlon was
offered bySuperintendent Rawlings.and
the meeting adjourned till this morn
ing. A feeling of enthusiasm prevailed
and all seemed determined to make the
convention both profitable and enjoy
able.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-28

Tho Second ward assembly hail has
arranged to present n double holiday
attraction, consisting of two entertain
ments to be given on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings. Dec. 30 and 30,
respectively. The evenings enter
tainment will begin with the beautiful
English pastoral drama, Dora, in three
acts Dora is followed by Charles
Danse's comedy. Naval Engagements.
The proceeds will go to the benefit of
the meeting house fund Doors will
be open at 7:15 and the performance
to begin promptly at 8. Admission, 90
cents. The piano for the occasion II
furnished by ID. o. Calder & Sons
Music Palace.
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will be proper to deduct from the
amount of money to be apportioned at
the next npportionment such sums as
the delinquent counties and districts
would have been entitled to. and which
We're omitted from the last apportion
ment provided they have brought
themselves within the law relating to
filing of reports, and then apportion
the residue among the several coun-
ties and districts of the State accord
ing to law
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this particular juncture is of very
great interest. Dean Halsey's article.
Church. is a frank and clear. almost
controversial exposition OF the Christ
ian religion from the standpoint OF the
Episcopal church. In addition TO
these special features the Era contains
a number of other interesting articles,
bright gems of poetry, an Interesting
Editor,s Table. and many useful sug-
gcstions to Improvement workers.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-21
A WONDERFUL MAGNET.

Some years ago, at Willet's Poin
States army made an interesting exper-
iment. He took an old gun sixteen
feet long, wound it with ten miles of
copper wire, and then connected it with
an electrical battery. The result was
astounding. The old gun, used to re-
pulsion, the synonym of destruction,
only useful when opposed to great
forces, had changed it's character COM
pletely. It now exhibited wonderful
attractive power. The cannon ball
that once whistled from it's mouth, now.
by an irresistible force, leaped toward
it. The iron and steel which it used
to repel were now enticed. In short,
Captain King found that the disused
gun was the most powerful magnet in
the world.
It soon became one of the sights to
see cannon balls, which no man could
lift, rise from the ground to the muz-
zle Of the magnet, and it did not take
long to find out that this wonderful
magnet had a lifting power of twenty
two tons. One of the most interesting
experiments was to place a soldier
about a foot from the muzzle of the
gun and then turn on the current.
Great iron spikes would jump from the
ground and attach themselves to the
silent soldier, who bristled with them
all over like metallic porcupine Even
great cannon balls would leap up and
hang upon him. There he would stand
holding up much greater weight than
he could ever possibly lift, and all with
no conscious expenditure of strength
This, which was the natural, seemed
the wonderful part of the scene, and
always impressed the visitor.
For the power was not in the man,
but in the magnet behind him. It was
simply working through him, and
would always do so as long as he stood
within the radius of it's activity. When
he moved away from the magnet the
iron would fall from his body, because
there was no power in him to sustain
it.
There is beautiful analogy between.
this magnet and the Great Teacher Whos
said, IT, if I be lifted up from the EARTH.
will draw all men unto me-" and who is.
today to mankind the supreme magnet
ic center and fountain of moral and
spiritual force. They who follow His
teachings are made strong to bear bur-
dens they never could bear alone.
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faint and bleeding from wound,
imagined that he was dead. She i'm
mediately took up her travelling bag
and pulled out phial. Before she
could be prevented she drank it's con-
tents and fell dead upon the floor.
Soon afterward the crown prince
came to and was taken by his own
orders to the castle of Meyerling.
Here he ordered his valet from the
room into which he had been carried,
and here he placed a pistol to his head
and fired fatal shot.
Letters of the prince and of the
baroness found after the tragedy tend
to disprove this version, and indicate a
premeditated suicide ON the part of
both parties. There were several wit
nesses who declared that they had seen
the bodies of the prince and the
baroness lying side by side Immediately
after the tragedy.
A man by the name of Johann
Tranquilein, known by the sobriquet of
Baron Schau," who died on Wards
island after career of dissipation in
the United States, asserted that he
drove the crown prince to Meyerling
on the day of the tragedy, and told a
very different story of the princes
death. He said that he drove the
prince and a jolly party Of friends to
Meyerling. No women were in the par
ty. Supper was served in the castle of
Meyerling, and during the festivities
the Baroness Vetcera suddenly made
her entrance into the supper room and
with flashing eyes asked the prince if
it was true that he had renowned her.
The prince, after a silence, answered
that his father would allow of no union
between himself and the baroness. The
latter then drew revolver and fired
at Rudolf. The ball wounded him hit
slightly, and he caught the infuriated
woman in his arms. She managed,
however, to turn the pistol against her
self and inflicted a mortal wound. A
relative Of the baroness then sprang
] up and brought a champagne bottle
with all his might upon the head Of the
prince, who sank upon the floor and
died. The lovers were then laid side
by side upon couch and all the wit
nesses to the scene were sworn to Sc
crecy.
A number Of stories varying In de-
tails were current in Vienna during the
days following the tragedy, and many
startling rumors were whispered
about The court, OF course, hushed up
the affair as much as possible. and 50
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-21
DON'T.

Don't eat shad in hurry, unless l1rs
has lost it's charms.
Don't sit with your back to a slight
draft; it might get too warm for you.-
Don't wear your bathing suit to a
Christmas party, just to show folks
that you have one.
Don't think that when woman gets;
her rights she will be mans equal.
She'll be his boss.
Don't swear before your wife. A.
gentleman will always give his wife a
chance to swear first.
Don't make fool Of yourself if you
are man: there's lots of women who
will do it much better.
Don't refuse to argue with woman.
OF course it doesn't do a particle Of
good, but it affords her lots Of pleas
ure.
Don't throw old shoes after a. BRIDE.
Tie them UP in a neat package and
send to her year later; she'H appre-
ciate them then.
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Leopold and the reigning house of
Austria, for, as widow of the second
brother of Emperor Franz Josef, Car,
lotta has been member OF the
Hapsburg family, and as such large
share Of her vast property should go
at once upon her death to her hus-
bands kinsfolk. Indeed, an account
ing ought to have been made with the
Emperor Of Austria at the time Car
lotta became insane, since he is one
of his dead brothers. trustees. King
Leopold has always avoided doing this,
in spite of the protests that have
reached him from Vienna. Indeed, at
the present moment there is no royal
parsonage in Europe who Is in such
bad odor at the court Of Austria as
King Leopold
Probably the most unfortunate Haps-
burg Of recent times was Archduke Ru-
dolf Francis Charles Joseph. He was
born August 81, 1858, and was the ED
est son Of Franz Joseph, Emperor Of
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-21
the story Of the princes taking off has
hever been authoritatively told.
LITTLE INDIANS AT PLAY.

Do Not Lose Their Tempers Like Our
- Lord Fauntleroys.
What uncOnfned joy when the
camera came out to picture some one,
or when we played pa-tol, the game of
the bounding sticks, or the aboriginal
hide-and-seek, says the Land of Sun
shine. Widest of all was the fun when
the fire fights were on and one party
defended the Pueblo, and the
other, assuming to be Comanche, at
tackled it at dusk. Then how we rolled
adobe mud pellets and stuck them on
the tops of our throwing sticks and
damned live coal into the side of
each, and sent them hurting into the
enemy's camp-until all the sky SEEM
ed to rain shooting stars! And what
perfect spirits! Now and then a fire
ball would find it's billet and there
would be howl of pain-and in the
next breath the wounded warriorling
would be bombarding again with more
spirit than ever and not a whit worse
nature. That is another of the good
things that generally go with the
brown skin-these children of the sun,
young and old, are fit players at any
game, for they do not lose their tenn
pers. They give and take, like the
manly creatures nature meant us to
be, and not the peevish, selfish, inf1am-
mable things that civilization has made
us. I would like to see just how long
one of these happy fire fights could go
on between an equal number of Little
Lord Fauntleroys before there would
be several real fights on hand.
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plainly. At review of the army,
however, she saw her student lover in
a uniform so fine that it almost took
her breath away. She asked some one
who he was and was told that he was
Archduke John of AUSTRIA" Johann
Orth next became captain, and soon
afterward the world heard that he had
lost his life at sea while sailing to VAL
paraiso from Buenos Ayres. Not very
long ago, however, the rumor spread
that he was still alive and he had seen
fighting on the side of the congression-
alists in the Gillian war. Anyhow,
there is no more typical example of a
rebel Hapsburg than Johann Orth.
A kindred soul is Archduke Henry,
youngest son Of the late Archduke
Rainier, viceroy of Lombardy He was
a general in the army, and while sta
toned at GratZ he made the acuuaint-
ance of Fraulein Holman, singer at
the theater, with a monthly salary Of
fifty forms. She was by no means a
great singer. Her last role was that
Of Pamela, in Era Diavolo;" but she
was pretty, quick witted, the very type
Of Viennese girl, and above all, ire
proachable in her conduct and man
ners. The archduke paid court to her,
and when he was obliged to take the
field in Italy he promised that he
would marry her if his life were spared
and his promise he faithfully kept. The
emperor stormed, fumed, and did all
in his power to reclaim the prodigal,
but all his efforts were in vain. Arch
duke Henry had vowed to be true TO
Fraulein Hoffman,, and not all the
powers in Christendom could persuade
him to abandon her. All Francis JOS
eph could do was to deprive the arch
duke OF his military rank and expa-
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Austria He was carefully educated
and learned to speak ten Languages
and also became versed in zoology and
the natural sciences He was also a
S1eat traveller and hunter. He was
married in 1880 to the Princess
stephanie, Duchess of Saxony, daughter
of Leopold H., King of the Belgians
It was one of the most brilliant nup-
tial ceremonies of the century, The
royalty welded pair did not live happily
and the princess sought in vain for a.
separation. It was said that she was
in love with an American when the pol
icy of the state forced her to marry
Rudolf.
Rudolf's sudden death, which occur
red at Meyerling, near Baden, on Jan.
30. 1889, astounded Europe, and was at
first supposed to have been caused by
apoplexy. Then the statement was
given out that the heir to Austria's
throne had met his death by being &C
cidentally shot while on hunting ex-
petition to Meyerling. Later the en-
tire civilized world was startled by the
news that the prince had committed
suicide.
The archduke was deeply infatuated
with the charms of the Baroness Vet
cera, a beautiful young girl, who re-
turned his love. He wished to be
united to her by morganatic marriage,
but his father would not allow such an
arrangement. On the evening of JAM
29 the crown prince met the baroness
in a gamekeeper's house not far from
the castle of Meyerling, and spent the
evening with her. In the morning both
were found dead, lying side by side
upon bed. 1t was asserted that the
baroness had taken poison and that
the prince had shot himself.
But there were great many variants
to the story, and though the fact that
| the prince committed suicide is now
generally accepted, there are different
versions as to the manner of his taking
off. One story is to the effect that a
| forester already equipped for the morn
ing's chase went to the house where
the prince was staying in order to ask
the gamekeeper for some instructions
regarding the hunt that was to take
place. He knocked loudly at the door
window was opened and man Jump
ed out and ran away. The forester
aimed and fired, and the fugitive fell
and when the forester walked up tc
him he recognized to his horror the
crown prince, who had tainted. The
shot had entered the princes shoulder
The forester called for help and, with
the assistance of man who ran tc
his aid, carried the prince into the
game-keeper's house.
| The baroness, seeing the prince in {
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triate him. The marriage took place
on February 4, 1868, and not until 1889
did the emperor show any signs of re-
lentlng. In the latter year he allowed
the archduke to present his wife and
daughter to him, and thus the family
quarrel was ended. r
Inc mlstortunes of Charlotte, former
empress OF Mexico. form another sad
chapter in the history of the Haps-
burgs. Marie Charlotte Amelie Au-
guste V1ctoire Clementine Leopoldine,
former empress of Mexico, and sister
OF the King Of the Belgians, is now ly-
ing dangerously ill., She was born in
l840, and was married in 1857 to
Maxlmlllan, who was placed on the
throne OF Mexico, and was tried and
shot on June 1, 1867. Macmillan in
the midst of his troubles sent Carlotta
to Paris to request some effectual aid
from Napoleon III. Failing in her mis-
sion, she proceeded to Italy, where her
reason gave way in consequence of her
troubles and worry over the probable
fate OF her husband She was eventu-
ally removed to the chateau of Bou-
chant,near Brussels, where, according to
report, she has, employed herself dur
ing her lucid intervals in writing me-
! moirs OF the Mexican empire.
King Leopold Of Belgium is now
charged at the court of Austria with
| having squandered in various specula-
lions, notably in his Congo enterprise,
the immense fortune which he held in
| trust for Carlotta. Carlotta has been
secluded from the view not only of the
public, but even of her Austrian, Eng
lish and French relatives, for the last
thirty years. Some months ago ru-
mors were circulated that she was no
longer insane. but that she was kept
under restraint by her brother in con-
sequence of his dread that she would
| demand an accounting of her fortune,
Since the report of the illness of Car
lotta these rumors have been revived.
The relatives of the former empress
have repeatedly attempted to see her.
but in vain. King Leopold has per-
sistently refused to allow her to be
visited by any of them, and this has
excited much animosity against him
as we'll as distrust at the courts oil
Windsor and Vienna. Queen Victoria
is an aunt of Carlotta, and the empress
of Austria is her sister-in-law.
The death of Carlotta will lead tc
still further bitterness between King
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-21
LATE NEW INVENTIONS.

A recently patented bicycle frame
has springs inside the tubing for the
saddle post, crank hanger, front fork
and handle bars, to deaden the force
OF blow on the wheels and make
rough roads easy to ride over.
Hammers for hand use in machine
shops are operated by pneumatic pres
sure, sliding spring pressed rod being
set in the casing to be driven by push
ing button by which the air is adj
mitted to the driving chamber.
To safely support ladys hat at a
theater bracket is attached to the
under side of the seat to carry a. swing
ing shelf extending nearly to the floor.
the device folding up against the bot
tom of the seat when not in use.
A recently patented water motor has
an endless upright chain of buckets
mounted on two axles with a stream of
water at the top to fill the buckets as
they start down, the length of the chain
determining the power Of the motor.
In a new French railway signaling
device lever on the engine hangs in
position near the rail to receive a sig
nal from fiat strip of iron lying par
allel to the rail, an Indicator in the cab
showing how many signals were given
by the iron strips.
Wave motors are being manufacture
ed with float mounted on the end of
a rod to work up and down AZ the
waves move, the rod moving a mission
which operates water or air COM
pressor and fills tank to furnish now
er to run machinery.
In a new non-puncturable shield for
pneumatic tires the tread is formed If
closely woven wires, with the trans
verse strands extended beyond the
longitudinal strands, thus making an
armored tread without decreasing the
flexibility of the tire.
A recently patented insect-proof dis
play rack has base on which rests a
cup, which is filed with water after the
socket Of the rack has been inserted in
hole in the center of the cup, thus
preventing insects and vermin from
crawling onto the shelves above.
Fire hose can be cleaned and dried
by new mechanism, consisting Of two
cylindrical brushes set in a frame
which can be attached to the hose cart,
the brushes being rapidly revolved as
the hose passes between them by a
chain geared to the axle Of the hose
reel.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-21
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
THE HOUSE OF HAPSBURG.

The news that Archduke Franz Fer
1inand of Austria, son of the late Arch
luke Carl Ludwig and Princess An
aunciata, and heir presumptive to the
throne of Austria-Hungary, has mar
ried beneath his station, while it will
assuredly cause CONSERVATION in the
great courts of Europe, will hardly
surprise those who know how prone
the male members Of the Austrian i'm
perial houses have been, at least dur
ing the present century, to enter in
to matrimonial alliances of this kind.
In this respect many of the Hapsburgs
have won much unenviable notoriety.
Love, indeed, has played a great part
in the lives of many of them, bringing
in too many instances ostracism and
social ruin, and in one instance, at
least, a lamentable and untimely death.
i. Never singularly fortunate, the Haps-
burgs have of late years been singu-
larly unfortunate. Study their his
tory for the past few decades, and
how many domestic casualties and &C.
centric acts you will find recorded.
+ Only a few years ago Archduke John
Of Austria Disappeared, and they say
that the old emperor still mourns for
him. A brilliant fellow he was, but
wonderfully hot headed and independ-
ent. His teachers complained that
ne seemed to lack a sense of rever-
ence.' He entered the army and at
once inaugurated several sweeping re-
forms. The state authorities checked
him, and then, in revenge, he published
bitter pamphlet, in which he in
Weighed fiercely against the Austrian
military authorities and claimed that
the army was shamefully mismanaged.
The emperor punished him by sending
him to Cracow, but he was soon back
m Vienna, writing music, studying
splrltualism, and otherwise busying
himself. The red tape of officialism
ne constantly detied, and at last,in Sep
TENDER, 1887, the emperor deprived him
of all his Offices and forbade him to
appear at court. In disgust the arch
duke left Vienna, and the world next
heard that he had assumed the nam
OF Johann Ortiz, and had married En-
lie Stubel, pretty little Austrian
singer. 1t was love match, pure and
simple. One day Emile "met a hand
some young man who said he was a
student, and with whom she fell in
love, because he loved her so tenderly.
Only she thought he dressed much too
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and find her lover in the cruel waves
where they had flung him, and he
should be hers in death.
She covered her head in the bed
clothes and shivcred and wept until
morning; then with the bright sun
came better thoughts, and she remem-
bered the grand picture that was to go
out into the world-she must save him
or it would not be finished. She would
warn him of his danger. So, alternat-
ing between love and jealousy, she
spent all the day, and when the sun
sank to rest behind the hills she was
on her way over the rocks and up onto
the cliff, where she could hide herself
and watch for his approach. =
1t grew dark, and the moon was hid
den behind black clouds; a storm was
coming up; still she did not stir; the
thunder rolled, and lightning lit up the
heavens with fitful dashes. Perhaps
he would not return tonight, and she
prayed he might not, although it was
agony to picture to herself the lady at
go out into the night, Hark! that was
his voice surely singing softly to him.
self, and in one of the flashes she saw
coming from the chateau road the form
OF him she loved; in one swift moment
she exulted that he had left his lady
in spite of pleading; but the feeling was
brlef, for from the other direction she
heard voices, and realized that the evil
deed planned in darkness The night De-
fore would be execure'l unless she could
prevent it. Nearer and nearer they
come until they are almost opposite her
hiding place.
Holy Mother! what can she do! There
is no time to warn him, as he comes
jauntily on to his doom, and she sees
like flash his mangled form on the
rocks below, to be washed out by the
cruel waves in the morning; then the
picture rises before her in all it's di-
vine beauty; her brain is bursting with
excitement. Unknowingly she rushes
out OF her concealment, and the ruff
think their victim is in their power.
In her frenzy she has gone too far;
one false step and she falls over the
cliff; lightning flash lit up the sky,
and there was one shrek as of lost
soul as she went over the edge. The
men turn and flee for dear life, think
ing in their superstitious fear that evil
spirits are pursuing them. In an in
slant all was over, and, unable to find
the cause of the disturbance, the artist
keeps on his way home
The next morning the village rang
with excitement, for the frightened men
had confessed all, and the body of the
girl was found in the surf.
The maiden had sacrificed her life
for her friend, and although he never
realized that his thoughtless kiss had
cost her her life, he undertook the SIM
pie burial, and placed a white cross
at her head, and he and his beautiful
wife make yearly pilgrimages to the
little grave of her who gave her life for
hls.-Boston Herald.