The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-04

tGte or France Some time ago he pur-
chased the Island OF Najerca. where he
lives. retired. wearing blue jeans ike
a peasant, and straw sandals and a Eat
cap with a long wiser. taking frecren,
ineosrito voyages on his yacht, Arch
duke Joseph has devoted himself 10 az
ricllture. an dis the osersesr OF the En-
perors various estates He was the first
TO write grammar OF the Romani
tongue AfTahle and CHEEKY. he was loved
oy the Zfngari TO whom he Was devot-
ed In an utopsan moment he thought
that he could turn the gypsses from their
nonandic life. 50 he -ouin villages fer
them and taught them to TIN the soil
But they preferred 10 rove and TO steal
And he left them 10 so TO manage i'm
perial country places. He wears the
cross o. Maria Theresa for extrzordi-
nary bravery. ard two crosses for hav-
ing saved human lives from a IRE. He.
surely. IS not 20 be counted among those
whom bismarck referred TO as the idiot
archdukes OF Austria
Nor IS Archduke Rainier II. was he
who created the science and art museum,
AZ Vienna and managed the prsIimin-
aries of the International exhibition OF
lS73 and the musical exhibition OF 1883.
He is faithful and capable osfscer Of the
militia. like any bourgeois citizen OF
means and delights 10 live like one.
Summers he spent at Brighton. England.
in lodgings. as some OF Phil Mays peo-
pI,F would 30. and eats boiled mutton
rrirH A~~rhfShavx q
Ferdinand, brother OF the Emperor. Is q
skilled engineer. He was married. NOR
gansticailly. six years ago TO sophie
Countess Chotek de Chosk0va de w0-
gum. because he loved her better than
the ladies OF his own grade
OF the Arehdukes. the black sheep 10
otto who is supposed 10 be heir-sppsr-
ent- Owing 10 the secrecy with which
the law OF succession has been kept since
esa 10 come to the rescue OF the Hzps-
burg%whose male line was extinct
only one minister. sworn on taking Of
nee never 10 reveal the fact. knows who
would be or could be named to reign
when Francis Joseph dies Otto. how
ever. since Francis Ferdinand married
outside the charmed circle. Is regarded
as his nominal successor. he is one OF
the archdukes one reads about IN fiction
less. brutal. who once in dsviIry
jumped his horse back and forth over
the coffin carried in a funeral process
sion. and again. tried one night TO take
some roysterer> 10 the chamber OF his
wife. Princess Of Ssxony. A faithful
guard would not let them in: and the
archduke was placed under three months
arrest by the Emperor. Some time after
that il was hunting accident. but pub
that it was : hunting accident, but pub
Iicly il was believed that the brother
OF his wife had called him 10 account
How Rudolph the Crown Prince 81
Austria. son OF the austere Elizabeth.
who was a cousin OF the Ludwig OF Bs-
vaTia who first drowned his physician
In charge and then himself in lake.
came TO q wretched end for love Is fresh
IN every ones memory. Elizabeth once
protested to Francis Joseph that she per-
haps had the Witteisbach faint OF lua-
hey; but The Martyrdom Of an Empress
would spread different idea OF her &c.
centricities. She. at any rate. never
showed the human passion OF the Fer
dinands. as those with Bourbon blood
are called. II was Rudolph whom the
Royal mothsT-in-Iaw would not let Eliz-
abeth take care OF in the notherIy fash
ion she craved 20 exercise. Rudolph :
wife. stephanie OF Belgium. was. IL ap-
pears, proyokirgIy jealous. and had lost
him before the BAH at which he saw and
btcame enamorsd OF the Greek banker 9
daughter, Marie BaltazzI. After a nights
interview with his father. the Emperor.
according TO The MartyrdOm OF an En-
press Francis Joseph was found bent
in a faint upon bis desk: and next night
Rudolph was found dead IA his hunting
lodge with a pistol b. his side: and on
a couch. as II she had but just entered
from travelling. lay the girl Marie. with
a bottle labelled ''strychnia." Notes writ
ten by both remarked upo. The imDossi-
hiiity OF going on with life In the con-
ditions which were imposed by society
Briefly. the alliances OF the Hapsburgs
with those who were out Of the con-
suitable station have been:
Francis Joseph with FRAU Sobrsu.
Louis OK Bavaria with Nile. Mesdei:
Archduke Henry with Nile. Hoffman
OF the GratS theatre
ArchGuke John with Emile s,isbel. sc-
tress and later with a postnan's daugh-
ter
Archduke Francis Ferdinand with the
Countess ChoteS-
Archduke Leopold with wIIheimgna
Adamovich. daughter OF Dost0ases off,
cal.
Students az life and OF physiology may
Vel b interested. why should this Old
house. once exhausted % the male line.
md carried forward By Marie Theresa,
uzion With Francis az Lorraine.
onIy here and there that the ignscy q
the wittelbschs hss been q possiAis
-ause Of the breaking Of the conventional
20 marry only with those q
royal birth II The tendency has not been
towards democracy os feeling Il certain
81 has ben towards assertion Of natural
selection. which may CT not be The same
thing II the Crown Princes. Louise
4 ato51etfs there vas the ssrre impz-
tienoe With TIRE stupidity q the eirrie sso
vas y as Empress Elsab~th described
IL her letters ard convsrSztsors- The
tzsbie-ioving vulgar social system and
rsrroz convenfio1sifty n whieh ere
-..0-cd. va iatcirrzbie. sh~ t-asesesl.
- &c. away from fhe 'horrisis sacsbss
x TIRE perpetual show ard parzcs~ ard
he f-iss standards she enoos5tsret.
yne r1nies % - WHERE sh~ oosi1 -
~ = WOMAN Ike oshcr -c7en. seS rot
lave be- chlarsn taken away f-Dn hsr
- Il zhe were q bfe~dinx zniussl .orlT
4i~~rsst - tesnx deckea nth t~~~Is-