The morning news., 1898-10-15
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NO"i EmperOr's Presenttments
trOpns ,be Piusburg Dispatch.
-, months prior to the assassina-
Th'' ~ g,,nress Elizabeth forebodings OF
oh U 1inq catastrophe were prevalent
y mp If Vienna has been widely
the =, oonnection with the 1escrip-
uO''.' 5aath of that lamented woman.
oh u ,,..u.ise on record that Emperor
pa r,senb was so imbued with omin-
raii-' .,,nanrs that he is said to have
u .a,sdIy exclaimed, on II only tnis
...,r were at an end! But II Is
lON' u.;isIv known that these appreheh-
o' y tbs mart of The Kaiser and OF ms
o@ ,.sra due to an incident which
n''' a,oce on the night of April "a OIL 'he
OOA wear. and which was OF sum cleht
IsS'"' - 70 be comprised in the regular
oda on the following morning TO
pep ,,,a.v superiors by the officer OF
Guard at the palace OIL ScoSnoi ul'i'
tbaf the sentinel posted an
J or hall leading TO the chapel was
olr,ost out of his senses by see
,ss form Of a white clad woman ap-
Limo him soon after l O'Clock IN the
He at once challenged her,
W. ..aor the figure turned around and
sook into the chapel, where the
der observed light, Hastily sum
81 ossis,ance. a strict search was in
ra and the chapel was explored
~',sout however, any result.
~. sortnel in question was a stolid'
5rn-ninded Syrian peasant, who
''''l. ..sessed of little power of imaglna-
and who was entirely ignorant
~. of the tradition according to
.s woman in white makes her ap-
4 .,,,e bv night in the Palace of Schoen-
eitber in the chapel or in the ad-
4 .a.r.- Corridors and halls whenever any
4 S-,.sortpna IS about to overtake the i'm
4 ,rioI bouse of Hapsburg. On each oc-
- This spectral appearance to the
ostine,e an duty has been described IN
a ~ ra,ort of rhe officer of the guard on
4 x,bs following morning, and is therefore
E msttsr of official record. The previous
II rstations of the White Lady nave tax
q N Mace on the eve Of the shocking trag-
civ of Meyerlng, few weeks previous
4 n the shooting of Emperor MaXmlllan
n " 7Ievico and of the burning to death of
x tbe daughter OF old Archduke Albert at
81 Soboanbrunn. while this same supernat-
& rraI annearance at the time when Arch
4 dnke Iohn vanished from human ken con-
4 vncas the imperial family that he is no
a onger in the land of the living, as so
ms1v believe, but that he really perished
al sea while on his way around Cape
Horn from La Plata to Valparaiso.
n The writer does not know the origin Of
The White Lady tradition at Schoenbrunn,
mar has he ever been able to ascertain
a ANYTHING definite about her history. But
\ there is plenty of documentary evidence,
as well as a wonderful array of records
concerning the White Lady of the Hohen-
zollerns who makes her appearance in the
n old palace at Berlin whenever death is
ABOUT TO overtake memOe of the reign
4 mg house of Prussia. The late Emperor
4 Frederick in particular, was greatly in
Il teTested in the matter, and collected all
81 the evidence that he could upon the sub
4 ject for the purpose of depositing it in the
s archives of his family Perhaps the most
y important piece of testimony in this con-
Fl Bect0n Is the sworn statements signed by
frnce Frederick of Prussia and a number
O. his fellow officers, TO all of whom the
s White Lady is declared to have appeared
u as they sat together on the eve of the
q Princes death al the battle of Saalfield in
Il iS6 Moreover, Thomas Carlisle went to
4 10 little trouble to procure evidence, when
n Writing the history of Frederick the Great,
& that the White Lady had appeared to that
famous monarch on the eve of his death.
4 Indeed, it is asserted that the King was on
n the road to recovery from his illness, when
n suddenly one morning he declared that he
n tad seen the whte-clad spectre during the
hght, that mis- hour had come, and that
4 IL Was useless to try to ward off death any
elger So he refused to take any further
medicine, turned his face to the wall ard
eled. 1t seems that this White Lady of
ule Hohenzollerns was originally the
countess Agnes Won Orlamuude, Who MUIR
ueied ner frst husband, as well as her two
children, in order 10 be enabled TO marry
uie Burgrave of Nuremberg, the ancestor
VI Ihe electors of Brandenberg and of the
mouse OF HohenzOlern. The triple mul-
uer Is asserted to have taken place within
& tIe peclacts of this palace, which was
% gu", +" years ago, contains a thousand
S-Huo"s and as many rooms as the num-
'5I n, Vi years OF its existence.
me winter palace at st. Petersburg,
, , obstruction of which entailed the
\. ise' % VI thousands of lives. has likewise
@ % "hlte Lady, and so, too has the pal
~ Vi lae Grand Duke of Heese at Darn
tau" t'a IL was in the legends in connec-
\ ~ N" WIN TINS last named palace that
~ uHposer Wagner found the insDira-
W. ay1 Ior ms opera "Lohengrin." A little
~ w. "an used to haunt the Tuileries be-
.e ar uey were destroyed by fire at the
o IS NJ, Vi tne Commune, and it is a matter
G Ds'oiy mat Queen Catherine of Medi-
ro,. was so much frightened by his ap-
n,io W there that she declined to re-
tTsn., "'lnh the precincts of the palace,
c'i7'IIhg her abode elsewhere. The
psrioi ue Sesur, a dignitary of the i'm
jv nv, 'outt' sensible man, and certain
mea,osl'eh sven TO romancing, relates in his
al to mat the Little Red Man appear
m. ue Afst Napoleon one night while
Tho T,,,e' e' was at work i'm his room at
deSas,'.e'Ies .e,ie'Ies on The eve of the Emperor 5
WITT Ior that Russian campaign.
fort,,l1 1ouS Htuted the turning point Of his
fall anu the beginning of his down.
lope -asIahd Hampton court palace has
harrt,5 5JoHed the reputati ton of being
Of fbe Wy the ghost of one or the other
VII L. r'ous wives of King Henry
corpor., ''ueed' the official records of the
that ho OF the city of London show
dered LORD Mayor and aldermen or
1000 ns.ns l,ls lhe reign of King James II
The SAM sg9 TO be said for the repose of
tb 9oul OF Queen lane Setnoorr Win