The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-09-17

sweet and kindly smile Of a mother.
But on the contrary the royal mother
ordered the Archduchess to repair
alone TO the vault ia which her dead
fether lay and there kneeling by his
coffin to pray for the repose OF his
soul The Archduchess regarded this
AS the last and most dreadful blow.
She entreeted her mother TO save her
such an ordeal Maria-Theresa, how.
ever. was little moved TO pity and aa
iittie used to brock opposition in any
hing, and least Of all would she tol-
crate 10 In a matter where she ap-
pesred to have a mysterious personal
interest. She, therefore, refused to
listen to her daughters pleading and
insisted upon her orders being obeyed
to the letter The Archduobess was
not ignorant Of the motive which ac.
tuated her mother but she dared not
disObey.
If am going down TO my tomb
whispered the Archduchess IN the ear
Of one OF her maids OF honor as she
proceeded to carry out the Injunction
/ laid upon her. The Archduchess now
/ descended unattended and alone into
the vault where shortly before the re-
mains Of one OF the princesses OF the
/ House OF Hapsburg. Maria Josephine,
wife of the King OF Saxony. had been
| Inferred beside that OF Francis Of
! Lorraine. The Queen OF Saxony had
! died Of smallpox To send the Arch
/ duchess 10 pray In such a place was
virtually to pass sentence OF death up-
on her. Accordingly upon the dav fol-
! lowing the Archduchess herself took
/ III of smallpox. Marla-Theresa order
/ ed masses TO be celebrated In I'll tho
/ churches of Vienna for the recovery o.
/ the Archduchess. But as the coffin
that contained the remains OF tho
/ Queen of Saxony had been pried per-
| TALLY open there was no chance for
! Josepha 10 escape the catching and
terrible disease. She died dpon the
/ very day fixed for herself and King
Ferdinand TO leave Vienna for Naples.
/ There was weeping at the Court o,
! Vienna in consequence but the eyes OF
the empress-queen were dry. Re
motherly instinct OF grief overcams
the fierce fires Of jealousy that blazed
in her Gueenly heart. Maria-Theresa
never gave the slightest proof of re-
morse, and after the court OF the Haps-
burgs had solemnly gone into mourn
ing for the young Penelope whom the
head of the House OF Hapsburg had
placed in the path of death. Maria
Theresa secured the Neapolitan al
lance for her next daughter, the Arch
duchess Caroline. Not a breath OF sus-
piclon was aroused Not a murmur OF
protest arose. Not one cringing cour-
tier dared 10 give utterance to the
stihed feelings which he entertained
But one sad and stricken soul sigh
ed and sobbed in the secrecy OF her
chamber amid all the sins and revelry
OF that putrescent Court. One break
ing heart was ready to burst. It was
that OF the faithful maid Of honor into
whose ear the Archduchess had whis.
pered Il am going down to my tomb
In these few awful but prophetic
words we have recalled a tragedy q:
romantic in its way as that wheI
Marie Antoinette's head was struck of
by tho guillotine in the days OF thu
French revolution or when the BLOOD
Of the beautiigl and Inflated Mary
! Queen Of Scots was tapped by one o
- her pet dogs in order to appease thl
tleerly instincts OF her cousin. Eliza
| beth. Vice is terrible enough in or
/ dinary natures but under the law o
e her dity it runs to appalling extreme
e In royal ones.