Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-03
AUSTRIAN HEIR
IS VERY POPULAR
Archduke Carl Francis Has
Won Affectinoate Regard
of His People.
HAD MILITARY TRAINING
AGED Emperor Appoints Tutors to In
sIrue. New Heir-Appsrent in
His Future Duties.

Vienna. Aug. SIN the month since
-. .-seedv bv which the Archduke
r-.-css Ferdinand. heir-apparent to
- ArstroHunearian throne. was re
- rv an assassin in Bosnia.
-s,s-kable phase Of the changed con
ss.,ons is the wave OF popularity now
Issjne about his young nephew who
-.,S5enjv finds himself confronted with
ere prospect % soon being emperor
.. Austria and king OF Hungary. With
n. venerable Emperor Francis Joseph
NOW IN his S4th year. It IS certain the
srtuary cannot allow him very long
lease OF life
As the new heir-apParent. Archduke
Carl Francis Joseph. appears already
N have won 4 more affectionate re-
GARD from his people than his uncle
rad and quite as warm a place in the
Ees-;s OF as many as his grand-uncle
enjoys. Everybody seems proud Of
him and confident OF his future success
as a ruler.
Has Military Training.
A, q wears OF age he finds himself
With little more than q military train
Ing He was only a junior regimental
oHce- when the news OF his uncle's
death reached him. Now he will turn
70 sta:scraf- and IN the time that may
be allowed 70 him, Try 20 acquaint him
sell with foreign and domestic affairs.
Archduke Carl Francis Joseph is
described as IN officer through and
through In his army work there has
been nothing OF the archduke about
him He has worked and studied and
learned and observed and done his
duty IN every way without for one mo-
ment claiming or desiring any special
consideration on account of his high
rank. Indeed. he would have been
very much surprised II anybody had
suggested that he should be shown any
extraordinary fayors or preferences.
He began as a cavalry Lieutenant
and was most popular among his com /
rsdes. who never felt that an imperial 4
highuess and future monarch was in I
their corps. He performed his duties
with the utmost exactness and was
Just as punctilious II his behavior to i
the senior officers as any young sub I
sitern. No du-y was too small He /
carried out the routine work most care I
fully. and. when he heard OF his young .
comrades grumbEuE. would merely 4
say. What do you expect? Orders are
orders"
Wife is Also Popular.
Going later into the infantry. the
a-chdUke has always looked back on
his services in the cavalry as the most
delightful time IN his life. He was
proud 10 ride into q new garrison at
the head Of his squadron, and II was
generally said in the regiment that the
officers in his squadron had the best
tine Of any. He was hospitable TO a
high degree and none the less so after
his marriage with Princess Zita Of
Parma. who Is just as well liked as
her husband.
When she accompanied him to his
garrison she came a. a simple junior
officers wife and not as an archduch-
ess. She went and called upon the
wives Of al the officers senior in rank
TO the archduke instead Of waiting for
them 10 call upon her She took the
greatest interest. not only in regimen
tai affairs. but also in the inhabitants
Of the country districts where the regi-
nents were stationed and became
greatly beloved by the Jews in one of
the small garrisons IN Galicia. She a..
went out among the people there and :
talked TO the children and gave them ,,
little gifts such as no officers wife had =,
ever done before.
Rushing His Education. q
But as long as Francis Ferdinand /
was living the Young couple were left a
N the background With two small
babies 70 look after. the archduchess {
Lita was quite content that il should b
oe SO, and was not at all anxious 10 f
Decome involved in the intrigues ap- ]
parenty inseparaDle from the daily '
lie a. most courts. and certainly at q
me court Of Vienna. But under the n
lhsnged Circumstance it, is expected =
mat she vail assume her rigEtfGl place
= 'ne hrst lady a court. a position e
low held b. the ArchdUcEess Maria q
Annunciata.
Ine emperor intends that the new r
lsir shall lose no time in taking his ,
pace In al probability the Archduke Il
ar Francis Joseph will be advanced d
@pioly II the army. while spending >
-ost o. MS time in familiarizing him I
~ with political and administrative
nara Special instructors. including "
-shiy placed officials. already have =
eeh nominated % inform the new heir =
ppsTent IN technical matters relating =
: the government and be will be grad .
any Initiated into the most impor- :,
III Affairs Of state. -
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