Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-21

Nenience 20 the general public.
no POSTAGE TO PAY.
When it comes to the postonice -erv-
ice these imperial abuses sometimes
take another form. Not long ago the
dealers In picture postcards. who can
be numbered by hundreds. received cir
Culsrs sent out by the chamberlain Of
Francis Ferdinand Offering to supply
picture postcards of the archduke and
his family taken az Konopischt, az a
very low rate. The prices included free
delivery by registered post Also the
circulars came through unstamped The
picture card manufacturers We're high
ly Indignant over such competition.
They made many complaints through
the public press that they could not
use the mails for nothing ana numerous
sarcastic references were made MS TO
the heir to the throne going into tho
post card business.
HARD MASTER.
Nor do the postal officials greatly
ike this free service for IL makes
them more trouble than 10 times the
same amount Of public work. Especial
ly Francis Ferdinand is hard to please.
Nothing must be permitted TO go
wrong with his mail matter When the
archduke goes away many and precise
are the Instructions regarding his cor
respondence aud mail service. Certain
newspapers. for instance. follow him To-
certain places and not to others. A
short time ago one OF these papers WAS
sent after him when IL ought TO have
been sent to his home in Vienna
There was a great fuss about IT, The
archduke not only complained but de-
handed that the careless official be
disciplined. But first he had to be
caught The newspaper i'm question
had gone through the sorting office
where a hundred men were at work.
So the whole hundred no We're on
duty al the time were solemnly re-
Quested to write ON separate slips OF
paper both i'm red and black pencil, the
name of the place where the paper
was sent To and the place where IL
ought To have been sent TO, Then these
sheets were all collected and subjected
to the closest scrutiny for the purpose
Of Identifying the culput. But the
sorters seem TO have known something
was up and not one OF the handWriungs
cores onded with that on the fatal
newspaper. And that time al least the
archduke's penal orders could not be
executed.
SOLDIERS WOES.
II the postal officials don't love tho
archdukc the soldiers like him less.
Like the famous John Gilpin the hcir
to the throne has a frugal mind, anu
sees great chances To exercise this
virtue at the expense OF the poor re-
crults scores of these who come from
the country and are found TO kno"
anything about gamekeeplng and FOR
estry are drafted of TO the archducal
estates and do theg military service
there. much OF it consisting I'm looking
after Fares and phoasants Also when
improvements I'm the parks and grounds
are under way the recruits come lu
very handy. squads of them are
marched about ana made 90 do duty
as dummy trees beiug stuck bere ana
there whilst Francis Ferdinand stands
of i'm the distance and wonders just
where a Clump ~ trees would look best
The soldiers wouldn't mind n $50 much
if they were doccntly fed hut they have
mostly 20 shift Tor themselves and
their miserable pay only buys them
far poorer food than they would Doe get
ting in barracks although that is psor
enough
TRAINS ARE STOPPED
Coming 10 she railway service. the
archdukes always pay their fares and
| ON that score there is nothing Go D.,
said The public convenience is only
intcrfercd with by the delays Doc tha
| traffic when they are travelling Ana
also when as frequently happens idsl
trains are stopped for their special Cou-
Vonicnce An express train is stopped
daily. pear 'hc Hungarian frontier tu
pick uI the milk CQnsirumcnts from
the dairy farms of tho Archdukc Fred
orick. and bring them into Vienna as
| quickly as possible. Dairy farmers who
are not archdukaH and for whom mo-
fast trains are stopped, feel as much
aggi1evcd az this preference shown t1
imperial traders as did the uictuI'
post card manufacturers hy the ahus
of the free postal facilities extended ln
the heir 20 the throne.
GRAFT INCREASING
There Is little sign OF the exercise of
these privileges growing less ON tho
contrary as the number of archdukDs
and archduchessos Increases the puh-
I lic Inconvenience may m s0Wp dir.C-
I tiOns increase also. Al present There
must be- nearly "a hundred hapshurgf
I big ANA little in existence. n ls lortu-
nate that the entailcd estates lIo pretty
/ large. otherwise % might Dee difficult iof
$50 many of them 90 continue 90 flourish
Al any rate the aged Emperor frncl.
| Joseph has never had any occasion to
NOrry about the succession, at least su
| far az tho number nf oligiblts a. cons
ceTnod When A. comes to quality that
| n another matter. Some people In the
monarchy are wondering whether
Francis Ferdinand viii ever discover "a
way to make his morganutic children
archdukcs and archduchesfcH and fholr
mother empress OF Austria and queen
| Of Hungary.