Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-08

estranged. but at the end OF that
time powerful influences effected an
ostensible reconciliation, I'm order
that the empress might share the
coronation festivities that were to
make the royal couple king and
queen of hungary, From this time
forward Elizabeth officially lived In
Vienna, though she was never really
there. spending much OF her time in
her splendid villa in Corfu, now the
property of Emperor William OF Ger
many. and wandering around the
country, her eccentricities amounting
almost to dementia. and everywhere
regarded as the most unhappy lady
in Europe.
In September OF 1898. when the
empire was preparing for great fes-
tivities in connection with Francis
Joseph's golden jubilee. another SEN
sationaI tragedy laid its blight on the
house of Hapsburg. Elizabeth had
consented To take a part In these
festivities and was preparing to set
out from Geneva for Vienna when.
while walking on the quay, she was
stabbed to death by an Italian an
archist who seemed to have had no
other motive for his crime than that
the Grand Duke, whom he had expect
ed to KILL had failed to put in an APP
pearance.
As has been said. these great trag-
edies have been the high lights in the
Emperor's life. because they have
been concerned with those members
Of his family who occupied the most
exalted rank. But In every family
relationship he has been stricken.
Hardly brother or sister. nep-
hew, niece or grandchild but has
brought him sorrow or disgrace.
Princess Stephanie. the widow of
Rudolph. became notorious for her ex-
cesses which her father-in-law was
powerless to control. Her daughter.
who pleaded with the Emperor to re-
strain Stephanie from marrying Count
Lonyay, herself brought grief TO the
family by shooting her husbands
paramount and exposing an ugly
scandal. The scandal of Princess
Louise of Coburg, while not in Francis
Joseph's immediate family, yet con-
eerned him deeply on account OF her
relationship to Stephanie and on ac-
count OF the relationships Of the CO.
shnrgs. and HaDshurgs ..ss
In his brothers and grandchildren
the aged Emperor has found only
trouble. Macmillan was executed and
Arehduke Louis Victor, after a shock
ing scene in public in which he was
thrashed by an angry father, was
Obliged to flee the country. He was
later confined in an asylum. a hope
less paretic. OF his grandchildren his
favorite Elizabeth, daughter OF his
daughter Gisela, eloped with young
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twice before, while her sister. Louise
of Tuscany, after shocking indiseret-
ions, published a book which gloried
in the humiliations she had brought
to her family.
This is not the only book which has
brought chagrin to the Emperor, for
the recently published my Past by
the Countess Larisch, niece Of the
Empress Elizabeth. raked up the
whole story of Rudolph and all the
other scandals dead and alive of the
Austrian court. Love affairs too have
been a popular source Of family
troubles for the lesser Hapsburgs as
well as the great ones of the name
The most recent disaster was that OF
the Archduehess Isabella Marie,
who two days after her marriage TO
Prince George OF Bavaria left her hus-
band and enrolled herself as nurse
in hospital in Vienna, a post from
which no amount Of argument or
pressure could dislodge her.
Although the hand of the assassin
has often been directed toward Fran
els Joseph, yet the spell OF the curse,
may you live on in lonely, unbroken
and horrible grief" seems always to
have protected him. The first at
tempt against his life was in 1858,
when Hungarian. Joseph Libenyi.
tried to cut his throat before his
troops. The emperors injuries were
slight and the would-be assassin was
hanged the next day. In 1866, as he
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