Arizona republican., 1914-06-29
ARCHDUKE FERDINAND
 AND PRINCESS SLAIN
 BYSTUDENTSBULLETS

but it is said that many of the criminal pcanks related about him were really those of his wilder brother, Otto. The story was once widely printed that in a drunken freak he stopped a peasant funeral rear Prague and amused himself by leaping his horse half a dozen times over the bier This and many such instances were officially investigated by parliament and declared to be mendacious islander.
 Francis Ferdinand, according to his admirers had an altogether different personality than such stories indi- cate. He had a very thorough mili- |tary training, extending over 20 years, and in 1891 he was made general He reOrganized the general staff of the Austro- Hungarian army with such success as to excite the admir- |ation of all Europe. As a hobby he took up locomotive engineering, and received a diploma as a full fledged railroad engineer. He was said to enjoy nothing so much as running an engine. He also. became recog-
 
 country. and the walls of his great chateau at Konopischt were hung with the antlers of some 2.0O0 stags land chamOis, as well as the heads of tigers killed in India, the tusks of elephants slain in Ceylon, and the belts of bears shot in the Rocky mountains
 icit In made in 1892, at the time of the Worlds Fair in Chicago He made Ia diary Of the trip, which continued around the world, and which is an interesting piece of travel literature. displaying shrewd comments of ap- preciation of things he saw and did. He thought this globe touring would especially contribute to his education as future monarch
 He also wrote two volumes of AL pine poetry, and put on paper for the first time many of the old melo- dies of his native Styria.
 His admirers insist that his life was singularly free from scandal, with the exception of his infatuation for the former Bohemian countess. While she belonged to one of the most ancient noble families of Bo- hemia. her birth rank was far below that of the imperial house of the Austrian Hapsburgs. Under the Hapsburg law no member of the i'm perial family can be married without the consent of the sovereign AS the Emperor's nephew and heir apparent, Francis Ferdinand's love af- l fairs had been closely watched By arrangement of the Austrian cabinet he was to become betrothed to d princess of Saxony. but so uncom- promising was his refusal that the matter was dropped. He had fallen l in love with the former Bohemian countess. then maid of honor to the widowed Crown Princess Stephanie. 1 For nine years this attachment was a subject of gossip in Vienna. When | his uncle, the Emperor. protested against plans for marriage. the Arch | duke reminded him of his previous advice
 T heard you once say" he repeat ed, that in choosing a wife an Elm perOr should pay no attention to pol itics and should follow the impulse of his own heart" This was a chap ter out of Francis Josephs own life 1 Francis Ferdinand stubbornly re- sisted the nine years of opposition on the part of the Emperor. Wher | he married he answered all argU ments with the reply:
 | spTbo tr.tr;apc u-o,,lJ not 1il-a see an unhappy man on the throne There was no question but that the two were deeply in love. and have ever since continued so. Francis Joseph, however, was never pleased
 with his nephews conduct. But ht gave his imperial consent to tho marriage upon condition that the IArchduke strictly observe the flaps Iburg laws and never attempt to place This morganatic wife on the throne Tor establish the right of succession
 for his children. He also elevated th'
 wife to the title of Princess of H0 ihenberg.
 The terms of the Archduke's oatl
 were explicit and binding. They SC
 forth that the marriage was not "eb enbueitige," or to one highly born
 The oath concluded as follows
 "We pledge our word that we rec | ognize for all time the present decla
 ration, of whose significance and scop | we are fully conscious, both for us an
 our wife. and for our children by thi
 marriage and that We will never attemp | to revoke this, our present declaratio 1 nor undertake anything calculated t 1 enfeeble or to abrogate the bindin
 force thereof
 { The precise meaning of this solem 1 remuneration was viewed somewha
 differently in Austria and in Hundar,
 Tn Austria it's force was thought to de pend largely upon the provisions of tn
 mysterious Hapsburg family law, hith
 erto most jealously kept secret It wa
 known however, that the emperor a
 sovereign head of the family has yer
 far reaching authority, but whether h himself is bound by the family law (
 is superior to it, and whether he coul
 alter the law alone or with the conser
 of the family in council assembled, ar l all questions which nobody outside tn
 members of the family could answe
 Then again how far the Hapsbur
 family law was binding upon til l Austrian state was another question , In Hungary, however. the whole mat |