The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-03-19


breeches and the top boots and got
astride a horse At the end Of the
journey, noting her beauty, the Arch
duke John spoke to her, and she con-
fessed innoceatly that, indeed, she
was a girl, not a boy. Learning that.
SAe archduke was smitten When he
contracted a morganatic marriage with
her, she was made, fer decency's sake,
the Baroness of Brandhofen and after
ward Countess of BIeran, and her son
came to great favoritism and the Or
der of the Golden Fleece and privy
councilorship.
In the Almanach de Gotha the arch
duke is entered now as having 'disap-
peared, for 30 man knows what be
came Of him after having taken, as
skipper, a ship to South America.
His brother, Louis 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
md has published works on botany
and nature which have admitted him
TO the Institute de France. Some time
ago he purchased the island of Major
ca, where he lives, retired, wearing
blue jeans like a peasant and straw
sandals and fat cap with a long visor,
taking frequent incognito voyages on
his yacht Archduke Joseph has de-
voted himself to agriculture and Is the
overseer of the empelor's various es-
tates He was the first to write a
grammar of the Romany tongue. Affa~
BILE and CHEEKY, he was loved by the
Zingari, to whom he was devoted. In
utop;an moment he thought that he
could turn the gypsies from their no.
Made life, so ne built villages for
them and taught them to till the soil.
But they preferred to rove and to
steal, and he left them to go to man
age imperial country places. He wears
the cross of Maria Theresa for eXtraor
binary bravery and two crosses for
having saved human lives from fire.
He surely is not to be counted among
those Whom Bismarck referred to as
''the idiot archdulzes of Austria"
Nor is Archduke Rainer. It was he
who created the science and art mu-
scum at Vienna and managed the pre-
hminaries 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 bourgeois
citizen of means, and delights to live
like one Summers he spends at
Brighton, England, in lodgings. Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand, brother of the
emperor, is a skilled engineer He was
married morganatically six years ago
to Sophie, Countess Chotek de Chot-
kowa 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 appar-
ent. Owing to the secrecy with which
the law of succession has been kept
since pragmatic sanction allowed Maria
Theresa to come to the rescue Of the
Hapsburgs, whose male line was ex-
tinct, only one minister, sworn on TAX
ing Office never to reveal the fact,
knows who would be or could be named
to reign when Francis Joseph dies. OF
to. however, 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-harum scarum, hard drink
ing, thoughtless, brutal, who once in
deviltry jumped his horse back and
forth over the coffin carried in a funer-
al procession and again tried one night
to take some roisterers to the chamber
of his wife, a princess of Saxony. 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 bullet. Publicly
it was given out that it was hunting
accident, but publicly it was believed
that the brother of his wife had called
him to account.
How Rudolph, the crown prince OK
Austria. son Of the austere Elizabeth,
who was a cousin of the Ludwig Of
Bavaria who first drowned his ply
sician in charge and then himself in a
lake, came to a Wretched end for love
is fresh in every ones memory. Eliza
beth once protested to Francis Joseph
that she perhaps had the Wfttelsbach
faint of lunacy, but ''The Martyrdom
Of an Empress" would spread differ
ent idea Of her eccentricities. She, at
any rate, never showed the human pas
sion Of ''the Ferdinands," as those with
Bourbon blood are called. 1t was Ru-
dolph whom the royal mother-in-law
would not let Elizabeth take care OF
in the motherly fashion she craved to
exercise Rudolph's wife, Stephanie
Of Belgium, was, it appears, provok-
ingly jealous and had lost him before
the ball at which he saw and became
enamored of the Greek bankers daugh-
ter Marie Baltazzi. After a nights
interview with his father, the emperor,
according to 1.-THE Martyrdom of an
Empress" Francis Joseph was found
bent in a faint upon his desk. and next
night Rudolph was found dead in his
hunting lodge with pistol by his side
and on a couch, as if she had but just
entered from travelling, lay the girl Ma,
RE, with a bottle labeled 'sStrychnia.
Notes written by both remarked upon