Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-08

EI<RZN Al heaNen ana Hell Dldst your
happiness; may your family
IN be extermineted; may you be
Q = - smitten in the persons OF
those you love best; may your chill
Gren be brought 10 ruin and your life
wrecked, and yet may you live on in
lonely, unbroken. horrible grief, 20
trenbIe when you recall the name Of
Karo.yts"
This was the curse pronounced on
the Emperor Franz Joseph by the
Countess Karolyi, whose son was put
to death by order Of the Emperor for
participating in the Hungarian upris-
ing. The Countess IS said to have
shrieked out her curse at the Emperor
when he appeared at a State ball in
Vienna.
1T will come to pass!" she cried as
the after ants dragged her away.
Surely her words were prophetic,
for death has come to the Emperor's
best loved relations IN a most tragic
manner. Today we find him lettering
with old age, standing alone like some
great tree which a storm has shorn Of
its branches.
Nothing is spared mel" cries the
burg as he sits IN his palace surround
cd by every luxury which wealth can
procure, the most pathetic figure in
European history.
The recent assassination OF the
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir
to the Austrian throne and his de-
voted wife by a nineteen-year-old IA
natical Servian adds another chapter
70 h An Of 10 lie
which have shocked the world during
the past quarter Of a century, and the
sympathy of the world goes out to
the old man who has suffered almost
beyond endurance.
Origin OF Hapsburg House.
The House OF Hapsburg has an in
teresting history-almost melodranl-
attic In its romances, scandals and
tragic deaths. Descendants OF Rudolph
OF Hapsburg, a German Count. born IN
1928, and elected King Of the Romans
in 1887, the royal family of Austria is
among the Oldest in Europe, for Count
Rudolph in 1882 bestowed the duchy
OF Austria upon his son Albrecht. aft
erward Roman Emperor. About 174C
the male line of the family died out
with Emperor Kari VI and his only
daughter Maria Theresa married Duke
Franz OF Lorraine and Tuscany. who
afterwards became Franz 1 OF the
House Of Lorraine and the founder OF
the Hapsburg- Lorraine family. Maria
Theresa was succeeded in 1880 by hel
son Joseph II. and afterwards his
brother Leopold II came TO the throne
and died after a two years reign
Leopold's son Franz followed ant
reigned until 1895. He was married
four times and left a large number OF
descendants who form the present I'm
perial House. Franz I, as he called
himself, was the first sovereign whit
assumed the title Of Emperor Of
Kaiser OF Austria, doing so after bein.
compelled by Napoleon in 1906, to re
nounce the imperial crown of Rome
which had been practically in tn
Hapsburg family for more than threi
centuries. Before this he had alread,
coupled with his title Of Emperor o
the Romans that Of Hereditary En-
peror of Austria. He was succeede,
by his son, Emperor Ferdinand 7. OF
whose abdication on December End
1S4S, the crown came 10 his nephew
the present Emperor Franz Joseph ]
who is known as the Emperor-I{ing o
Austria Hungary. The internationa
relations OF these countries is callel
the Austro- Hungarian monarchy
1t consists of two States-the Aus
trian Empire and the Hungarian King
dom. The relations between the tw
are regulated by the so-called com
promise of 1867, which makes Fran
Joseph the common head Of the tw
nations and known in Austria as En-
peror and in Hungary as the Apostolic
King. The present Emperor cam
TO the throne in 1S4S. was crowne
King of Hungary and took III