The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-17
court forbade the union.

court forbade the union.
 Being a man before an Archduke, he brooded over this situ ation, and presently showed that he would not put up with the artifcialties of aristocracy, would not tolerate bores, whatever their birth; and declared that the people are not made for the princes" One day he ar rived at the post-station of Brandhofen, and needed horses and a postillion; and the postmaster fearful of losing his place, asked his slim young daughter if she would serve. She pulled on the Jockey brooches and the top boots, and got astride a horse; at the end of the journey. noting her beauty. the Archduke John spoke to her, and she confessed, fnno- gently, that, indeed, she was girl, not a boy. Learning that the Archduke was smitten. When he contracted morgan atic marriage with her, she was made for decency's sake the Baroness of Brand- hofen. and afterward Countess of Me- ran; and her son came to great favor itism, and the Order of the Golden Fleece and a Prfvy Councillorship.
 An Archduke in Jeans.
 His brother, Lotus Salvador, has the same distaste for the position to which he was born. He has spent his life In the study of history and geography. and has which have admitted him to the Institute of France. Some time ago he purchased the island of Majorca, where he lives, retired. wearing blue jeans like peas ant, ana straw sandals ana nat cap with long wiser, taking frequent in- cognito voyages on his yacht. Archduke Joseph has devoted himself to agriculture, and is the overseer of the emperor's va rious estates. He was the first to write a grammar of the Roman tongue. Affa- ble and cheery. he was loved by the Zin- gari, to whom he was devoted. In an utoptan moment he thought that he could turn the gypsies from their nomadic life; so he built villages for them, and taught fhan1 fn fill fha anil Rnf fh0U nPAfarFAd to rove and to steal. And he left them to go manage imperial country places. He wears the cross of Maria Theresa for extraordinary bravery, and two crosses He, surely, is not to be counted among those whom Bismarck referred to as the idiot archdukes of Austria"
 The Heir-Apparent.
 Nor Is Archduke Rainer. It was he who cres ted the science and art museum at Vienna, and managed the preliminaries of the International Exhibition of 1S73 and the musical exhibition of 1889. He is a faithful and capable officer of the mili- tia, like any bourgeois citizen of means. and delights to live like one Summers he spends at Brighton, England, in lodg- ings, as some of Phil Mays people would do. and eats boiled mutton with caper sauce. Archduke Francis Ferdinand brother of the Emperor, is skilled en- gineer. He was married, morganatically, six years ago to Sophie, Countess Chotek de Chotkowa de Woguin, because he loved her better than the ladies of his own grade.
 Of the Archdukes, the black sheep is Otto, who is supposed to be heir-apparent Owing to the secrecy with which the law of succession has been kept since prag- matic sanction allowed Maria Theresa to come to the rescue of the Hapsburgs- whose male line was extinct-only one minister, sworn on taking office never to reveal the fact, knows who would be or could be named to reign when Francis Joseph dies Otto however, since Fran cls Ferdinand married outside the charm ed circle. is regarded as his nominal ST C. cessor. He is one of the Archdukes one reads about in hction-harum-scarum hard-drinking, thoughtless. brutal, who once in deviltry jumped his horse back and forth over the coffin carried in a funeral procession, and again tried one night to take some roysterers to the chamber of his wife, a princess of Sax ony. A faithful guard would not let them in; and the Archduke was placed under three months arrest by the Emperor Some time after that he was wounded in the shoulder with a bullet. Privately, 1t was given out that it was a hunting accident. but publicly 1t was believed that the brother of his wife had called him to account.
 The Bankers Daughter.
 How Rudolph. the Crown Prince of Austria, son of the austere Elizabeth,
 
 varia who first drowned his physician in charge and then himself in a lake, came to a wretched end for love, is fresh in every one's memory. Elizabeth once pro- tested to Francis Joseph that she perhaps had the Wittelsbach ta!nt of lunacy; but the martyrdom of an Empress would spread a different idea of her eccentrici- ties. She. at any rate, never showed the human passion of the Ferdinands." as those with Bourbon blood are called. It was Rudolph whom he royal mother-in- law would not let Elizabeth take care of in the motherly fashion she craved to ex- ercise Rudolph's wife, Stephanie of Bel gium, was, 1t appears. provokingly jeal- ous, and had lost him before the ball at which he saw and became enamored of inc Greek bankers daughter, Marie Bal tazzi After a nights interview with his father. the Emperor, according to The Martyrdom of an Empress, Francis Jo- seph was found bent in faint upon his desk: and next night Rudolph was found