The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-06
CARL MAY SOON Be
EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA
TRAGEDY WHICH PREClPITATED
WAR MADE HIM HEIR
APPARENT.

Vienna, Aug. 6.-In the month since
the tragedy by which the Archduke
Francis Ferdinand, heir-apparent to
the Austro-Hungarian throne was re-
moved by an assassin in Bosnia re-
markable phase of the changed con-
ditions is the wave of popularity now
raging about his young nephew who
suddenly finds himself confronted with
the prospect CT soon being Emperor
Of Austria and King of Hungaria. With
the venerable Emperor Francis Joseph
now III his eighty-lourth year, it is GER
tain the actuary cannot allow him a
yeiy long lease of life.
AS the new heir-apparent, Archduke
Carl Francis Joseph appears already
to have won a more affectionate re-
gard from his people than his uncle
had, and quite as warm place in the
hearts of many as his great-uncle en-
joys. Every body seems proud of him
and confident of his future success as
ruler.
At twenty-seven years of age he
finds himself with little more than a
military training. He was only junior
regimental officer when the news of
his uncle's death reached him. Now
he will turn to statecraft and in the
time that may be allowed him, try
to acquaint himself with foreign and
domestic affairs.
Soldier Through and Through.
Archduke Carl Francis Joseph is
described as an 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 TO rome
moment claiming or desiring any spe-
cial consideration on account of his
high rank. Indeed he would have been
very much surprised if anybody had
suggested that he should be shown
any extraordinary favors or prefer
ence.
He began as cavalry lieutenant and
was most popular among his comrades
who never felt that an imperial high
ness and future monarch was in their
corps. He performed his duties with
the utmost exactness and was just as
punctilious in his behavior to the SEN
ior officers as any young sabaltern.
No duty was too small. He carried out
the routine work most carefully and
when he head of his young comrades
grumbling would merely say: What
do you eXpect-orders are orders?"
Going later into the infantry, the
Archduke has always looked back on
his service in the cavalry as the most
delightful time in his life. He was
proud to ride into a new garrison at
the head of his squadron and it was
generally said in the regiment that the
officers in his squadron had the best
time Of any. He was hospitable to a
high degree and none the less so after
his marriage with the Princess Zita of
Parma. who is just as we'll liked as
her husband.
Preparing For Responsibility.
! When she accompanied him to his
garrison she came as simple junior
officers wife and not as an arch
duchess. She went and called upon
the wives of all the officers senior in
rank to the Archduke instead of wait
ing for them to call upon her. She
took the greatest interest, not only in
regimental affairs, but also in the in
labitants of the country districts where
the regiment was stationed and be-
came generally beloved by the Jews in
one of the small garrisons in Galicia
She 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.
But so long as Francis Ferdinand
was living the young couple were left
in the background. With two small
babies to look after the Archduchess
Zita was quite content that it should