The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-06

to overcome my inherited prejudiceS
and to be kicked rather than miss the
least chance of earning the money
which l required SO badly.
| AT last all our money was gone, and
l was beginning to pawn articles of
personal property, SO that we felt the
pinch of poverty in earnest. 1t was at
| this period that I yielded to the en-
/ treaties of. my wife to write to the
| Emperor Francis Joseph to tell him of
! the plight was in, and to ask if he
| approved of an archduke's son being
| left to starve in one of his own capitals.
| To this communication / received no
reply whatever, and L have often
doubted whether 1T ever reached the
| emperor. If it did, his extreme sever
| ity--I may say his absolute cruelty-to
| me and my family is ineXplicable for
Francis Joseph is in most respects a
| kind hearted, benevolent monarch.
can only suppose that the facts of my
fathers marriage have been misrepre-
scented to the emperor.
Soon all that we were able to pawn
was gone and we were literally at the
| end of our resources. Our landlord
allowed us to stay with him for week
or two without paying the rent, but,
| finding that out prospects did not i'm
prove, he had us elected from our
| rooms one Saturday night. There was
/, the rightful son of a Hapsburger,
| and the granddaughter of an emperor,
standing in the street with wife and
| five children, without shelter and with
| out cent WhereWith to purchase a
| nights lodging. 1t was terrible stu
| alton and l shall never forget the an
guish 1 experienced at that moment
I'm this plight l was driven to make
money out of my misfortunes, and 1
| hurried to the office of the enterpris-
inc doll off 6n ctr Clf
my fate for publication. The editor
| jumped at it, and l came away
an hour later with $50 in my
pocket, an amount that made me feel
! as if L had become a rich man, so low
| had l sunk. 1 was able to take an
other lodging-only one room this time
and to return to the search for work
| with renewed energy. The money,
however, vanished rapidly, and within
a very short time we were again home
less.
"Once more I was in debt to my
landlord, and once more l was turned
out in street on a Saturday night. This
time l had no new story to tell to
newspaper, and we passed the long,
cold night under an archway, huddled
together to fortify ourselves against
the biting frost. The next day 1 took
my wife and children to the poorhouse
and continued my search for employ
ment, tramping around all day, gener-
ally with an empty stomach, and
sleeping out at night. Many times L
thought of committing suicide, and I
went often to the bank of the Danube
to seek rest from my sorrows in its
waters, but the thought of my wife
and children restrained me.
"At last, when I was nearly mad
with despair, I found post as clerk
in an insurance Office at a weekly wage
of SIS, and l thought myself lucky to
get it. The work was simple enough,
and soon / was able to take my family
from the almshouse and to give them
small one-roomed home / did not keep
my position at the Office long, but the
fact that l had been engaged there en-
abled me to obtain other employment
as a canvasser for a firm that sold
rouge, complexion powder and other
such articles connected with a lady's
makeup. In this capacity had to go.
around from house to house and to
hold forth to all the women 1 found at
home on the exceptional qualities of
the toilet requisites we had for sale.
Here again l was not success for
the sales resulting from my efforts
were insignificant, and it was not long
before my new employer told me that
he had no further need of my services.
1--WE were on the very verge of being
elected for the third time when l re-
eeived an offer to enter the service of
the Cafe New York as waiter, the
proprietor of that establishment calcu-
lating that the presence of scion of
the ruling house would be an excellent
advertisement for the business. He
offered me wage of SIS per week, and
what could make by tips, and without
much consideration accepted the Of
fer and went to work on the following
| Monday morning.
ut was a trying ordeal at first, but
it was not SO bad as being elected
with wife and family or as sleeping out
at night with the thermometer at sew
eral degrees below zero. / soon learned
how carry cups of coffee without
splitting all the contents, and how to
take the guests, money and to pocket
their tips.
'I found my income from this latter
| source to be a considerable one, for
many of our patrons thought it neces-
| sary to give a Hapsburger more than
| they would have given an ordinary
waiter. 1 was stared at terribly at
first and the ladies especially used to
come in great numbers to have look
at me, but / soon grew accustomed to
| these embarrassing attentions, and re-
ceived them as if / had been on show
| all my life. Most of the American
tourists who pass through Budapest
come to see what l look like, and they