Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-08-06

be exterminated; may You be
u y L smitten in the persons OF
those you love best; may your chill.
dren be brought to ruin and your life
wrecked, and yet may you live on in;
lonely, unbroken, horrible grief. to
tremble when you recall the name Of
Karolyi!"
This was the curse pronounced on
the Emperor Franz Joseph by the
Countess Karclyi, whose son was put
to death by order Of the Emperor for
participating in the Hungarian upr!s-
ing. The Countess is said to have
shrieked out her curse at the Emperor
when he appeared at State ball In
Vienna.
ut will come to pass" she cried as
the attendants dragged her away.
Surely her words We're prophetic.
Tor death has come to the Emperor's
Best loved relations in a most tragic
70 amer. Today we find him totterinS
with old age, standing alone like some
great tree which a storm has shorn of
Its branches.
'Nothing is spared mel" cries the
waperable Head Of the House OF Haps-
hrg as he site In his palace surround
Cd by every luxury which wealth can
procure. the most pathetic figure in
European history.
The recent assassination Of the
Afchduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir
to tf1e Austrian throne, and his de-
voted wife by a nineteen year ia
natical Servian adds another chapter
to the long line of Hapsburg tragedies
which have shocked the world during
the past quarter of n century, and the
sympathy Of the world goes out to
the old man who has suffered almost
beyond endurance.
Origin or Hapsburg House.
The House of Hapsburg has an in
teresting history-almost melodram-
attic In It's romarces scandals and
tragic deaths. Descendants Of Rudolph
Of Hapsburg, German Count born In
1928, and elected King of the Romans
in 1897, the royal family Of Austria ie
among the oldest in Europe, for Count
Rudolph in 1882 bestowed the ducfly
OF Austria upon his son Albrecht, aft.
erward Roman Emperor. About 174t
the male line Of the family died ou
with Emperor Karl VI and his only
daughter Maria Theresa married Duk,
Franz, Of Lorraine and Tuscany, wht
afterwards became Franz l Of tn,
House Of Lorraine and the founder o
the Hapsburg- Lorraine family. Marii
Theresa was succeeded in 1880 by he
son Joseph II, and afterwards hi
brother Leopold II came to the thron
and died after a two years reign
Leopold's son Franz followed an
reigned until 1895. He was marie
four times and left large number 0
descendants who form the present I'm
perial House. Franz l, as he Gale
himself, was the first sovereign VIII
assumed the title Of Emperor c
Kaiser of Austria, doing SO after bein
compelled by Napoleon in 1905 to re
nounce the imperial crown of Rom
which had been practically in tn
Hapsburg family for more than thre
centuries. Before this he had alread
coupled with his title of Emperor
the Romans that of Hereditary En-
peror of Austria. He was succeede
by his son, Emperor Ferdinand l, c
whose abdication on December On
l848, the crown came to his nephe'
the present Emperor Franz Joseph
who is known as the Emperor-KinS
Austria Hungary. The information
relations of these countries Is call'
the Austro-Hunganan monarchy.
It consists of two States-the An
TRAN Empire and the Hungarian Kin
iom. The relations between the ty
ire regulated by the so-calied cor
promise OF 1867, which makes Fra
Joseph the common head Of the tN
nations and known In Austria as Ell
peror and in Hungary as the Apostle
King. The present Emperor car
In
King of Hungary and took t