Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-13
rid is FULL OF TRAGEDY
81 Review of the Terrible
Wife of the Hapsburgs.
Row OF MARIE ANTOlNETTE
2eath, the Great and Lowly
Are Equal.

peath, the Great and Lowly
NJ Are Equal.
Ere Come Into Everyday Life Situations
bat Are wonderful. and They All Load
the Going Boms-sohs Women Make
Martyrs of Men When They Are Dead.
ko5ai Correspondence II Gazette and Jourpa,
few York, Oct. 7.--Just now the
fld is full and reeking over, with
3edy. Here a great empress is
Heidi; in another place. an unknown
MALLS by the colors that he was SO
Bud to protect; then way off in some
&6lS corner bitter, cynical man
l& good-by to the world, for he has
lnd nothing sweet in it, while
bong party Of gay companions
|bdsome woman surprises them all by
- shot of a pistol because there have
"a too much life, too much love and
so-called happiness in her
E14er. I..s
Id you ever sit down and think out
& terrible life of the Hapsburgs?
]tt doomed family they seem
IN the days of Marie Antoinette,
walked so proudly to the guillo-
there seems to have been nothing
unhappiness and sorrow. 1.-THE fair
Ned Marie Antoinette saw her son
heir beaten, starved and ill treated
d rough jailer till the tears no longer
We'd down her face. She could no
'Rer weep, and when tears are,taken
n a-woman surely her last refuge is
/ Nc dark haired Elizabeth, she also
I|te house of the Hapsburgs, saw a
young son kill himself simply be-
& the morbid line Of heredity was
driger than he could bear. And yet
WAS only ID years old! Justly he
led the future. Then girl of IL
I$ murdered, pretty, dainty rose
va to whom even life was envied.
*terward there was that most awful
tath, the death Of the son and heir,
| Q death of the gay and joyous
nudolph, who, seeming, like his brother,
look, into the future, murdered the
3bman he loved and then killed him
I lf. This WAS at the supper table,
3e gay, festive board where each was
linking the health of the other and
I'm which some one had to carry the
|Pvs to that lonely mother. She had
epwn lonely by this time. Gradually
~ children had been taken from her
" the dagger or the pistol, and she
&bdered over the face of the earth,
|naing no place to rest. Always the
|6fd "murder'' seemed to hang, like
d sword of Damocles, over her head.
Last year the greedy flames found
beautiful sister, the Duchesse
|4Alencon, one who was eager to help
IA poor, and beautiful in her desire
N offer bread to those who lacked it.
lie was caught by the whirling, pitt
( Is wind of fire that in taking away
~ sweet breath was even brutal
0bugh in death to render her body I'M
&lutifu!.
|tSo they all went, and Nine. la Ouch
me-, as the empress preferred to he
1tIled,, since she could hide herself
Ifder that name, sought refuge in Eng
Ind and Ireland, She was followed
lere, there and everywhere by the
Gends who loved her best and who
Nike words of consolation, as we'll as
81 those dumb friends that, when she
gAS told that she must no longer ride
Iihce some bitter bastard might take
aaf life from her, would come to her
nd eat Jumps of sugar from the dainty
and that never burt, but always did
Nod. One who saw it said that there
~ never a more beautiful picture
An that of the Empress of Austria,
|Afrounded by her fayorite pets, each
Witty pushing tho other in its eager
38ss to get nearest to her or to gain
Inn her the bits of sugar that were
1H out and she, like child, expect.
ln the loving looks as thanks in re,
And now she has gone away. The
great cathedral bells toll the masses
Tor the dead, and those to whom she
mas been a friend raise their hats an6
honor her by that great silence only
|yIven to the dead. Here she lies
in death, and yet in death
he and you and | are all equal. TX
her, to you and to me there can only b,
hid eau revoir'' because of that Ger
tainty that we will meet again.
l%Think of the going home! Think o
HE empress, and then think of tn,
|s9ldier boy! There is no great differ
Nice. lss
IN Do you remember going home after
leasant party? Tho day over, yol
mach the time to say laughing
NJ Good-by
M Do you remember the time when
Qleasant group. after studying tn
oolors used by the grea
MASTER to achieve the wonders of, tn
prld, uttered the somewhat awe
S54sood-by?p iIs
md yet there como into everyda,
l3e situations that are quite as won
dHrful, and they all lead to the goin
home. just today there is a young AM
pretty girl in one of the rough, ever
day cars that fly over tho great noun
'tains carrying home hundreds If soldie
boys, some dead, some wounded an
ZONE SO happy because ti.ey ere goin
home. There is an accident. TIL
Whole train is delayed for four hours
ASyoung boy goes through the car beg
Efbg, not for money, not for whisky
HID for quinine, the loalth givin
tarlS that will bring strength, as
:6xplains, "to that other fellow that
IN taking home to his mother. :" Whe
8here is an opportunity, my pretty gil
9Rbes her quinine to the dusty
Wounded soldier boy and finds hill
ksping, signing, worn out and almo:
Iad. The quinine isquickly given, an
&1An, with the daintiness of a gentle
woman, fine handkerchief is dippe
in1a cup of water. and the soldier
face is freshened up, while his ha
Il made to look a little more like FIJI;
lot a human being. There they stant
y the pretty maiden and the hoy, for !
|yjs only that, who few months az
4Htarted out to fight for his countr,
fike you and like me, he had a
fpinion, and he announced it:
You see, miss, until ] really an