Arizona republican., 1898-09-21

wished to be kind to her they could not have done better than detail an assas- sin to administer 6 painless dea,h to that unhappy wonian- Her life was full Of tEe DittereSt sorrows, and she often said that death would be a vel come release. She became a wife when a schcci girl Of 16, and the royal fam fly into which she married regarded her from the outset as little better than al irterlcpeT. Fcm the time Of her marriage to the date of her death the empress has had the vilest stories cir culated about her. Here is 2 sample: When coming down the grand s.air- ease O. the palace Of Schoenbrunn, the long sweeping train of the empress be- came entangled around the feet Of the cardinal archbishop Of Vienna. who had drawn on one side to make room fer his sovereign. The most insuICirs stories were current in scandal-lovins Vienna within twenty-four hours. con- meeting the name Of the empress with that of the prelate, and describing it as new concorGat between church and state
 So distressing to the empress did this state of things become that in 1859 she left the royal cours and went to Corfu whither the emperor followed her to seek a reconciliation. She eFaded him by leaving the place and going on a yachting trip, and it was eight years before, chiefly through the illness of the crown prince, She royal couple met again, and were reconciled to the great joy of the AustriGnS who celebrated the occasion with carOusais in which the health of the emperor and empress were drunk in bumpers Of Hungarian wine.
 After the reconciliation the empress continued to live 2 melancholy life, de voted to her horses and indifferent to almost everything else, until 1885, wien there occurred the first Of the tragedies that made every one who knew her delicate and high-strung con- stitutiCl marvel that she retained her mental powers through the series Of ordeals. While the empress was stay ing at a hotel or one side of the Star enberg lake her cousin, King Louis Of Bavaria, was drowned CT the opposite shore, after having, in . fit Of insan- ity, murdered the medical attendant whom hs blamed for the restraint pu- upon him. The empress spent many hours kneeiing at the dead mans bier, and never altogether recovered frcn the shock. Six years later followed the terrible death Of her only son, whose l0veless marriage to Princess Stephanie Of Belgium she had both op- posed and deplored.
 The circumstances Of the death Of the crown prince were cf the most hoTri- ble description The crown prince committed suicide when insane with drink, On making the terrible discovery that Baroness Marie VetZera, the girl with whom he was SC passi0nateIy in love that he was prepared to recounce his succession to the throne in order to De able to divorce his wife and marry her, was his illegitimate sister. She wss natural child of the en- P5eor and the elder Baroness stZera.
 l. was the emperor himself who in formed his son Of the relationship and demanded that they should s5p- aEate. This the crown prince felt he could not do, and 50 blew out lis brains after shooting and killing the girl
 It was the empress who first learnsd Of the terrible tragedy from the lips Of Count Hoyos, ere Of the guests Of the crown prince at the hunting 1cdga Of Eeyefiing, where the tragedy tock place She bore up wonderfully under .Jhe shock, and, indsed, astonished aii ny her fCrtitude
 But from that time she declined to