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found. in a hunting lodge at Meyer.
ling, not far from Vienna. Beside his
body lay that of the Baroness Marie
Vetsera.
Heir to Throne Differs.
Archduke Charles Francis, known
popularity as Karl, who becomes heir
to the Austrian throne, owing to the
morganatic birth of ArChduke Fran
els Ferdinand's children, debarring
their succession, has been carefully
educated with a view to fitting him
for the position of emperor. He diff
fers from all other members of the
imperial family inasmuCh as he is
the first member of the imperial house
to have been educated in the public
schools of Vienna, where he mixed
with pupils representing every class
of society. He associated with work.
ingmen and trades people and Joined
them in their games, thus getting
into closer touch with the aspirations
and ideals of the people than any of
the other HapsburgS. He is first
lieutenant in the Austrian navy.
Was Fifty Years Old.
The dead duke was just over fifty
years of age. His full name was Fran
els Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph
Maria. His father, the Archduke Carr
Ludwig, was a brother Of Emperor
Francis Joseph, and bis mother was
Maria AnnunZiata, daughter of Ferdi-
nand II. of Sicily. Francis Ferdinand
was still boy when his mother died.
In 1898 his father, then over fifty,
married Princess Maria Theresa Won
Braganza, the 1S-year-old daughter OF
King Miguel, of Portugal. The new
lstepmother established an exemplary
home. It was sac, and her own
daughter, the ArcbduChess Maria An
nunziata, who were the only ladies
present as witnesses of Francis Fer.
dnand's marriage to the Countess OF
Chotek.
UP to his twenty sixth year Francis
Ferdinand had no idea that he would
become emperor of Austria. The
Crown Prince Rudolph, the only son
of Francis Joseph, was then heir
when to the CONSERVATION of the dual
empire and to the surprise of the
world the crown prince met tragic
death in what is known as the Meyer
ling tragedy, the result of an uncoun
tenanced love for young baroness
The mystery of the shooting at Meyer
ling lodge, in which both the baron
ess and the crown prince were killed
has never been cleared.
With the crown prince thus remov
ed. the first choice as an heir to Fran
Ces Joseph fell to his brother, the Arc
duke Carl Ludwig, but he already was
an old man. and he declined the bon
|ors in favor of his eldest son, Francis
Ferdinand. The title of heir Wai
never officially conferred upon Fran
els Ferdinand, but from his twenty
lsixth year his training for the throne
was carried on.
Escapades Talk Of Nation.
His escapades had been such a.
are so often ascribed to royal lads
but il is said that many of the Grim
Iinal pranks related about him wer'
REALLY those OF his wilder brother
lotto. The story was once widel,
printed that in a drunken freak h
stopped a peasant funeral near Pra
lgue and amused himself by leapln
lhis horse half a dozen times owe
the bier. This and many such instan
Ces were officially investigated b.
parliament and declared to be men
,daCiouS SANDER.
Francis Ferdinand, according to hi
admirers. had an altogether diferen
personality than such stories Indicate
lie had very thorough militar.
Training. extending over twenty year
land in 1891 he was made general
He reorganized the general stah
1.-The Austro- Hungarian army with sue
success as to excite the admiration o
Iall Europe. AS a hobby he took u
locomotive engineering and receive
a diploma as a full-fiedged railroa
Iengineer He was said to enjoy moth
ling so much as running an engine
He also became recognized as one Q
1.-THE best shots in his country, and tn
walls Of his great chateau at hOnt
pischt we're hung with the antlerS q
some 1000 stays and chamols. as we
as the heads of tigers killed in lndit
the tusks of elephants slain in Cel
lon, and the pelts of bears shot
the Rocky mountains.
Visited the United States.
His visit to the United States wa
made in 1892 at the time of tn
worlds fair in Chicago He made
diary of the trip, which continue
, around the world. and which is an II
teresting piece of travel Literature
displaying shrewd comments of al
probation of things he saw and dit
They thought this globe-trottlng woul
Especially contribute to his educatio
as future monarch.
He also wrote two volumes OF A
| pine poetry and put on paper for tn
first time many of the old melodies
his native Syria.
His admirers insisted that his III
was singularly free from sCanda
with the exception of his infatuatio
for the former Bohemian counties
, and thereby hangs the interest in tn
present situation. While sac belong
to one of the most ancient noble fan
lilies of Bohemia. her birth rank
far below that of the imperial hous
of the Austrian Hopsburgs. Undo
the Hapsburg law no member of tn
imperial family can be married wit
= out the consent of the sovereign.
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