The Alaska daily empire., 1914-08-28
HapsBura Tragedies }
 By Gertrude B. MalleHe {

Karolyl seem so grimly to have point. ed out for the House of Hapsburg, and superstitious Austria today calls to mind with the fearing of it's credulous nature the words of that curse which the Countess muttered against the Emperor Francis Joseph some sixty years ago when the Hungarian revolu- tionists were suppressed by no very gentle hand and her son paid the toll of death for his zeal.
 May Heaven and hell blast hls happlness!" she cried in her sorrow fed rage. May his family be ex- terminatedl May he be smitten in the persons of those he loves! May his life be wrecked, and may his children be brought to ruin!"
 No witch of Shakespeare's dream ing ever uttered more horrible curse, and many of Austria's people today are convinced that their Monarch Is reaping the fullllment of that male- dlction.
 The present Emperor of Austria. Hungary is not pure Hapsburg. but can trace his lineage in that family only through the female line, from his mother, Maria Theresa. who late in the 18th century married Francis Stephen, the Duke of Lorraine. With that marriage the true house of Haps- burg became extinct and its remnant i is known as Hapsburg-Lorraine. But Franz Josef has the tell-tale Hapsburg lip. the Hapsburg jaw. and most fatal characteristic, he has the Hapsburg misfortune and his subjects think of him only as Hapsburg.
 "on the banks of the beautiful river Aar, near the place where it loses itself in the Rhine, rise the ruins of the mighty Habichtsburg, the Hawks Castle, which was built in 1920 by Werner, the Bishop of Strass. burg, and his only brother, Radbot, who established the Abbey of Muri." The brothers claimed to trace their ancestry to the nobles of the Merovin- gian courts.
 Be that as 1t may Radbot's sons were known as the counts of Habichts. burg and through the generations their strength increased and eliminated in 1273 in Adolph's accession to the German throne. In the course of his just and powerful reign, Rudolph gave to his sons the duchies of Austria and Syria, his by right of capture. Then the succession of warrior monarchs ended with Rudolph's son Albert, and Henry of Luxemburg came to the throne, bringing with him the bitter seed of the feud between Hupsburg and Luxemburg which still plays no small part in the undercurrents of things European.
 The Hapsburg Frederick the Fair succeeded Henry by a minority vote of the electors in 1914 and in 1922 he was taken captive by the Duke of Bavaria, who reigned in his stead The line then leaves the throne until 14SS, being revived in King Albert, "in. heriting from his father-ln.law the kingdoms of Hungaria and Bohemia" 1" Albert was crowned King of Germany. This branch of the Hapsburg tree last. ed until the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1906. Charles the Fifth being accorded the greatest of them. The Hapsburg family which the world today is watching, springs, however, not from Charles V, but from his brother Ferdinand I the founder Of the tragic Austrian Hapsburgs.
 The lowest Austrian today can re. cite the calamitous history of the Hapsburgs since the pronunciation of the Karolyi curse. A Vienna news. paper, listing the tragedies of the fam. fly at the time of the assassination of the Empress Elizabeth, give them thus: "on June 16, 1867, Grown Prince Rudolph took his own life in his hunting box at Meyerling. In May, 1897, Sophie, Duchess of AIen. con- at one time the alliances bride of Ludwig II of Bavaria, was burned to death in Paris. On June 16, 1867. the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, the orother-in-law of the Empress, was shot by a firing party at Oueretaro His consort, the Belgian Princess Marie-Charlotte, lost her reason and has been for the last thirty years nm. der restraint at the Chateau Boucbot
 AIchduke William Francis Charles died in the summer of 1894 at Baden rom injuries sustained through a fall rom his horse. Archduke John of Tuscany who had resigned his rank and taken the name of John Orth. dis. appeared on the high seas of the coast of South America King Ludwig uI of Beyaria, cousin of the Empress committed suicide on June 1S, 1886 drowning himself in the Lake ofI Starnberg in a fit of insanity.
 Count Ludwig of Trani. a brother. in-law of the Empress, committed sui. eide at Zurich. Archduchess Matilda, daughter of Fieldmarshall Archduke Albert was burned to death in her fathers palace through her dress catching fire from a log in the fire, place. ArchduRe Ladislas. son of tbe Archduke Joseph was accidentaJIy killed on hunting trip. The father of Ferdinand the First was a week profligate. Philip the Handsome and his mother was Joanna the Mad, their son coming to the throne as Maximil. ian II. who married his cousin Mary. Students of heredity point out the as an example of the det. erioration and degeneration resultant from extensive intermarriage, the GUS tom of royalty of all countries"
 Francis Joseph has the famons