The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-29
ARCHDUKE FRANCIS FERDI-
 NAND.

A Model Prince Who is to Rule Over IrreconciIabIe Peoples.
 Of the many distinguished strangers
 who assembled here for the coronation, one of the most interesting-personal
 the least known, too, perhaps-is the Austrian emperor's representative, Franz Ferdinand d'Este For he is at
 once the future sovereign of a great empire and the hero of a romance, the hope of an important political party, ] and a willing tool in the hands of l clever woman. Sooner or later he will ] be called upon-unless the fates with l their shears interVene-to play a role of
 almost incomparable difficulty As em-
 peror of Austria, king of Hungary and
 ruler of Bohemia, GaliZia, Dalmatia, l Croatia and any number of other states, l he will have to hold the balance even
 among some dozen rival nationalities, each one with taste for flying at the
 throat of its neighbors. He must spend I his life-he has no choice in the matter i if he be emperor-trying to do the inn ] possible, trying to reconcile interests
 that clash, and induce people who hate one another to throw in their lot to-
 gether loyalty. Among his subjects he will have Pan-Germans and Pan-Slavs, 1 evangelicals of the narrOWest type, and ! ultramontanes of the most exalte-men ! to whom the pope is the abomination of abominations, and men to whom he stands as the emblem of all that is i holy. He will have among them, too,
 republicans and absOlutists, progress
 sives and reactionaries. constitutional
 ists. anarchists and socialists; and on
 him will fall the duty of keeping peace
 among the lot. With such a work be-
 fore him, little wonder he looks de- pressed sometimes, and is more prone to sigh than to laugh.
 Franz Ferdinand is the eldest son of the Austrian emperdr's brother, the late Archduke Karl Ludwig, a man of great
 talents and great virtues, whose life was wasted completely because he was out of touch with lis times. Had he lived in the fifteenth century he would, no doubt. have been a shining light; in the nineteenth :, hegWas an anachron- ism. Even in Austia he was looked on askance owing to the way he used to rail against all things modern. And he brought up his sen to walk in his own footsteps: from his earliest days Franz Ferdinand was taught-hiS tutors were always Jesuits--to look on constitution alism as the curse of Austria, and on religious toleration as something akin to blasphemy.
 From the day the archduke became crown prince in fact, although not in name, he fell, of COurser under the dl- rect personal influence of the emperor, who with that rare patriotism which has always distinguished him, prompt ly set to work overwhelmed with grief though he were to try to undo the per- nicious effects of the erucation his heir lad received, and fit him for his work as sovereign. Instead of priests, sol diers and statesmen took up their place by the princes side as mentors and guides, and did their best to bring him into touch with the realities of life, and make him understand how heavy are the responsibilities he will have to bear. The good effects of this change were soon apparent, for before many months had passed the archduke had developed into model prince, so far at least as ceremonies and functions are concerned.
 For political work, it is true, he con- tinued to manifest a marked dislike, re- fusing to take any interest whatever in the dongs of ministers or Reichstag de- bates, But of this characteristic his flu ture subjects could hardly complain, seeing that they share it to the full. Between them and him, indeed, it was
 the one point of sympathy; for popular among them he was not, being much too cold in manner too indifferent and re-
 served, to appeal to Austrian taste.- London World.