The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-24
PREMIER OF AUSTRIA
IN EMPEROR'S FAVOR
pY IA MARoUIsE DIE FoNTENoY.

III La MAltStlsE DE FONIf.nO1.
~ CUNT KHUEN-HEDERVAR tho
masterful new premier OF Hun
~ gary. who. by winning in the
recent, general election such o
large majority for the government and
for the. crown. has entirely swamped
the various factions tavoring complete
separation. not merely from Austria,
but In some cases even from the house
of Hapsburg-factions that have reg-
dered parliamentary government At
Budapest perfect farce for the last
ten or fifteen years-enjoys in a very
exceptional degree the confidence and
favor OF the aged Emperor. and VIII
now be able TO carry through the lat
tiers cherished project of the intro
auction OF universal suffrage in his
Magyar kingdom
charged by his opponents in Hungary
M ans 0s Win S sias anq az Is
neither the orc nor the otheE He !,
a Tyrolese family. He was, however.
educated on one OF his fathers estates
IN siavonia. and studied afterwards al
and o og Of Wien boh1 GT9a
years of age Count Carl Khuen Uhe
name which he bore them paid visit
to an old Hungarian relative named
Count Hedervary, of Hedevar, near
his destination. at the railroad sta
ton. finding his hosts grooms en-
gagged in holding the heads of the
very unruly horses of the drag on
to meet him, he shouldered his heavy
trunk himself and carried IL to the
coach. This greatly pleased his host,
who took fancy to his young kins-
man. and, on dying year or so at
forwards, left him all the Hedervary
estates, on the condition that he
should assume his name, in coniunc-
ton with his own. That is how Count
.r1 ? Iitap
Hedervary.
On succeeding TO the estates. the
count found them heavily encountered.
He began by contracting large loan,
an extent that he soon paid off the
mortgages, refunded the loan. and
rendered the property exceedingly
profitable. He is prouder of this
achievement than OF anything else
that he had done, either as ban or
encouragement Of Croatia, or as
premier of Hungary.
Though most agreeable man in
society, with most charming manners,
he Is a man Of very strong character,
vice, an autocrat from head to foot,
and just as overbearing in his deal
ings with political groups of men as
he Is winning in his intercourse with
them individually.
The count is sixty years of age, has
the Order of the Golden Fleece and
all other distinctions which it is in
the power of the Empespr to bestow
upon him. and though asRoman Cath
| ole, with all his ancestors of the
same faith. is married to the Lutheran
Countess Margaret Teleki. probably
the only one of the Danes du Palais
OF the late Empress Elizabeth who did
not wear the Order of the Star Cross,
which Is restricted to Roman Catho-
lies. The counts family appears for
the first time on the roster of the
Tyrolese mobiles in 1861, and received
the title of count in 1890.
The widowed Countess Keller.
whose engagement to Hans Won Flo
tow, of the German diplomatic SER
vice, has just been announced. isJthe
widow Of that General Count Keller
who, renowned as Russia's most dash
battles of the war in Manchuria.
struck by no less than forty bullets.
The countess was by birth a Princess
Schakowska, member therefore, Of a
| family which is, like the sovereign
! house of Romanoff, descended from
Rurik, founder of the latter, She Is
a very fascinating woman and still
| beautiful. in spite of the fact that she
| has a grown-up son. She Is pos
sessed OF very large fortune In her
| own right
| Keller, was q brother of that Countess
| Kleinmichel, who is the recognized
leader of the great world In the Rus-
sian capital, and not to be on whose
| visiting list means that one does not
| form part Of society In the Cars cap
| ital He was greatly liked and trust
ed. both by the late and by the pres