The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

business and SICK headache,
Bismarck referred to as 1.-The idiot
archdukes of Austria"
The Heir-Apparent.
Nor is Archduke Rainer. 1t was he
who created the science and art muse
UNI at Vienna, and managed the pre-
liminaries of the International Exhibit
ton of 1873, and the musical exhibition
of 1889. He is a faithful and capable
officer of the militia, like any bour-
geois citizen of means, and delights
to live like one. Summers he spends
at Brighton, England, in lodgings, as
some of Phil Mays people would do,
and eats boiled mutton with caper
sauce. Archduke Francis Ferdinand,
brother of the Emperor is a skilled en-
gineer. He was married. morganati-
cally, six years ago to Sophie, Countess
Chotek de Chotkowa de Woguin. be-
cause he loved her better than the la
dies of his own grade
OF the Archdukes, the black sheep is
Otto, who is supposed to be heir-ap-
| parent. Owing to the secrecy with
which the law of succession has been
kept since pragmatic sanction allowed
Maria Theresa to come to the rescue
=
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 Francis
Ferdinand married outside the charm
ed circle, is regarded as his nominal
! successor. He is one of the Archdukes
| one reads about in fiction-harum-s
| rum, hard-drinking, thoughtless, bru-
tai, who once in devilry jumped his
horse back and forth over the coffin
carried in a funeral procession, and
again, tried one night to take some roy.
sterers to the chamber of his wife, a
Princess of Saxony A faithful guard
would not let them in; and the Arch
duke was placed under three months
arrest by the Emperor. Some time aft
err that he was wounded in the shoul-
der with bullet. Publicly, it was
given out that it was a hunting acct
dent but publicly it 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,
who was a cousin of the Ludwig of
Bavaria who first drowned his physi-
clan in charge and than himself in
lake, came to a wretched end for love
10 lI6Sn III EVERY OIle > IneUlOTy.
beth once protested to Francis Joseph
that she perhaps had the Wittelsbach
faint of lunacy; but The Martyrdom of
an Empress would spread a different
idea of her eccentricities. She, at any
rate, never showed the human passion
of 'the Ferdinands," as those with
Bourbon blood are called. 1t was
Rudolph whom the 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
Belgium, was, it appears, provokingly
jealous, and had lost him before the
ball at which he saw and became en-
amored of the Greek bankers daugh-
ter, Marie Baltazzi After a nights
interview with his father, the Emperor,
according to The Martyrdom of an
Empress, Francis Joseph was found
bent in a faint upon his desk; and next
Rudolph was found dead in his hunt
ing-lodge with a pistol by his side;
and on a couch, as if she had but just
entered from travelling, lay the girl
Marie, with a bottle labelled "Strych-
MA" Notes written by both remark
ed upon the impossibility of going on
with life in the conditions which were
imposed by society.
Briefly, the alliances of the Haps- |
burgs with those who were out of the |
conventionally suitable station have |
been:
Francis Joseph with Frau Schratt;
Louis of Bavaria with Mile. Mendel; |
Archduke Henry with Mile. Hoffman |
of the Gratz Theatre:
Archduke John with Emile Stieoel, |
actress. and later with a postman's |
daughter;
Archduke Francis Ferdinand with the
Countess Chotek:
Archduke Leopold with Wilhelmina |
Adamovich, daughter of post-office
official.
Bored with Court "Wretchedness'
Students Of life and of physiology |
may we'll be interested. Why should
this old house once exhausted OF the
male line. and carried forward by /
Marie Theresa, through union with
Francis of Lorraine, exhibit these So
cial phenomena? II is only mere ana
there that the lunacy of the Wltte!s-
bachs has been a possible cause OF the
breaking of the conventional obliga-
ton to marry only with those OF royal
BIRTH If the tendency has not been to-
wards democracy of feeling. it certain
Iy has been towards assertion of nat
liral selection which may or may Lot
be the same thing. In the Crown Prin-
cess Louise Antoinette there was the
same impatience with the stupidity OIL
the circle she was in as Empress EliZ-
abeth described in her letters and con-
versations. THE bauble-loving vulgar
social system and narrow convention
ality in which she moved" was intos-
cradle. She travelled to get away from
"the horrible incubus of the perpetual
show and parade" and the false stan
dards she encountered. She wanted TO
be where she could be a woman like
other women" and not have her chill
dren taken away from her as II she
we're a breeding animal, only different
by being decked with jewels. Louise
Antoinette. who would yet have been
Queen Of Saxony. confded her inten-
tion to separate herself from "all the
wretchedness" and "all the hypoc-
risies" she had known, as well as from
the crueIties she had suffered In pri-