Western news-Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1898-1900, 1898-10-13
JERUSALEM AND BAD LUCK.
Misfortune Overlook Royal Couples
Who Journeyed There.

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Who ~Journeyed There.
While no n need feel surprised that
Emperor William should desire to I'M
dertake the trip to Palestine, yet there
are many who regret that his Zion
ism" should have led him to permit his
wife to accompany him on the jour
ney, and among superstitious people
much apprehension is felt and express
ed in connection with the project. For
it is a strange popularity that hardly
any royal couple have ever visited Je-
rusalem together without being shortly
afterward oyertaken by misfortune.
Only recently the visit of the Archduke
and ArchducheSs Charles Louis of Aus
tria was followed by the sudden death
Of the former, who, as second brother
of the Emperor Francis Joseph, stood
next in the line of succession to the
throne, and who, until that time, had
enjoyed perfect health.
Another imperial couple whose pill
grimage was followed by still more dis
astrous results were the Crown Prince
and Crown Princess of Austria. I'll
quarrel which eliminated in Rudolph's
shocking death at Meyerling followed
Immediately on their return to Vienna
from Palestine; while the stay in Je.
rusalem of the Emperor Williams ED.
est sister, Charlotte, who was accom-
panied by her husband, Prince Bern
hardt of Saxe-Meiningen, and attended
by Baron and Baroness Won Kotze, had
as it's natural sequence what is now
known at Berlin as the Anonymous
Letter Scandal" in which Princess
Charlotte and her husband wafe so Sc
riously compromised as to render their
departure from Berlin necessary, while
Baron Won Kotze himself, after fight
ing innumerable duels, being crippled
for life, and subjected to imprisonment,
is now living in retirement with his
wife.
1t was likewise just after the tour in
the Holy Land Of the Grand Duke Ser
gius of Russia and his wife that every
capital Of Europe was ringing with
stories of the most incredible brutality
and savagery on the part Of the Prince
to his lovely and popular c%onsort, who
was compelled to appeal for protection
to her brother-in-law, the late Car,
and Prince Frederic of Schleswig-Hol-
stein, uncle Of the present Empress Of
Germany, died suddenly at Jaffa on his
way back from Jerusalem, whittier he
had gone on his bridal trip. He left
behind him an American widow, a
daughter of David Lee, Of New York,
who had been created by the Austrian
Emperor a Princess Of Noer, on the
occasion Of her marriage, and who is
now the wife of the Prussian Field
Marshal, Count Waldersee, the success
sor of Moltke as chief of the headquar-
tiers staff of the German army.
These are only a few of the large
number of analogous cases that could
be cited in this connection. But they
are sufficient to show that superstl-
tious people have some grounds for ap-
pretending misfortune in the event OF
the Kaiser taking his wife with him to
Jerusalem. For, c%uriously enough,
those who make the pilgrimage alone,
and who leave their wives Or their hus-
bands at home, appear to escape the
fate that overtakes those royal person
ages who neglect this caution, and,
with the exception of Empress Eu-
genie, who lost her throne a few
months only after her return from the
Holy Land, the Emperor Of Austria,
the late Emperor Frederic of Germany,
the Prince Of Wales, King Leopold of
Belgium, the Empress Of Austria, the
Grown Princess of Sweden, King Os-
car, the Crown Prince Of Italy, and
Prince Henry Of Prussia have all been
able to visit Palestine without being
overtaken by subsequent misfortune
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