Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-10-20
TRADITION CLAIMS
CHARLES FOR OWN
Emperor NJ Austria Crosses Bridge
10 Peace Of switzerland; But He
Signs us He Leaves Home.

"Nothing Is crca ---, nothing Is
destroyed"
The aunt Of Charles Is a gossip"
"Thc Sigh Of Charles" Is tragedy.
II It did not happen that great
ncws, Ike great fcats 81 arms and
great mon, had trick OF passing un-
noticed. ana II It we're not that the
person aftorward amused himself by
rchahilitating them. Just N before he
enjoyed plunging them in the shades
Of night. they would persist like the
pearls At tho bottom Of the sea.
The person among his thousand
namcs may also assume that OF
women Hlta, empress for Instance.
And as the comets pass with "a
stream Of light, It TX not rare for an
empress to pass with IA stream OF
words, like a pebble. Petty wranBl-
ing among the mOrtals
However, II Is fact that last week
"a sigh Of Charles G-"by the grace
Of God and the o. h. OF the kaiser
emperor Of Austria--b breathcd out on
u little wooden bridge before two
little customs guards was able to
pass WITHOUT causing comment or
even a commentator.
BonbdIll's Immortal Sigh.
In the year in which Columbus
discovered America, without per
mission ~ the kaiser. Boabdill, the
last King Of Granada. fleeing toward
tho south, from which his ancestors
had come two centuries before.
paused upon the mountninsIde, and.
sighing, looked back on the lovely
gardens and sparkling fountains Of
the Alhambra and, on his own Gra-
NADIA hc was never to behold again
and sighed.
From that day the hill has since
hocn called "Thc last sigh OF the
Moor" And his sigh assumed such
poetry and romance that the win
dow OF the AIhnmbra opening on
Patio do In Mezpuita. from which
King Boabdill fled, still remains:
"Thc Window Of the Sigh"
In Ccrcmonills Boabdil the last,
and Charles. tho first. when they
meet In the valley Of Jchosaphat,
w!ll address oach other with the IA
mlliar thou. since they arc cousins
by virtue OF being kings: but for the
sorrow OF their sighs they are twin
brothers.
Boabdil quilted his kingdom and
Granada and the Alhambra, which
was moro than kingdom. Charles
quitted-what. indeed. did Charles
abandon? Perhaps in that moment
OF solitude. which no thought would
gF III IuH hn nj
with the simple heart OF man, and
felt sincere sorrow as n man for his
Zlta. whom he saw overtaken by the
hlllows; for his war; For his house.
for his reign, all going surely adrlft?
Longs for Peace.
Charles Is young. Notwithstanding
all, and in spite OF the kaiser. Not
withstandlnE all. sincerity. from
time to time, blossoms out in youth,
like tho flowers in May
Tho telegraph has brought us only
recently the official communication
OF "the low and insensate rumors
which have been circulating for sew
crnl days I'm regard to Emperor
Charles and tho Empress Zita." He.
however. knew OF them already and
suffered them. and that little bridge
leading 10 Switzerland, where peace
exists, is n human page NJ intimate
sorrow which he read with interest
mingled with human sympathy and
unwcarying kindliness Of heart. To-
ward the emperor we are enemies;
toward the young man who suffers
We are Italians friends.
Who will think tomorrow 10 pass
on TO history the bridge Of Charles"
as the Bridge Of Sighs" and the
customs guards as the Keepers OF
Sighs?"
The simple news item said:
Yesterday the Emperor Charles
with his adiutant Of the general
staff, went to the SWISS border in an
automobile. Hc mounted and crossed
the little wooden bridge, which
marks the border, on foot. He met
two Swiss customs guards. who,
without recognizing the man to
whom they were talking, offered
him n glass Of wine Tho emperor,
learning that II was Italian wine,
refused II, saying: 81 do not accept
Italian products with that he went
AWAY, hut before he left the bridge
he stopnoh and looked lonGingly to.
ward Switzerland and exclaimed:
ll'l' Ufd'f I'lbOSs ana sighed
The Item stops here. just as the,
excursion Of the Emperor Charles
toward peace ends at the Bridge Of
Sfhs
SO Dcstinv PLAYS with tho hearts
or men. without respect to rank or
occupation.
Farms SColdIng From Berlin.
II remains to add the emperor OF
Austria has lost another opportunity
to hold his tongue and not to sigh.
To the emperor remains one more
scoldinC, to be made by telegraph
from Berlin.
They have rivcr him n German
general for his armies; they will
give him tomorrow general with
spiked hclrnct for aide de camp and
guardian Of siChs.
Can he write lettcrso No. They
are bad. Can he talk? That Is not
well. Can he sigh? No: that is
worse. Thus his life will he made
up of things he cannot do. Of things
he does not know how to do and OF
things they compel him to undo.
Take all these things. gentlemen.
melt them in crucihle and the al.
10y viii Givc . knGly crown.
His majesty has said:
do not accept Italian products"
Excuse us, hut then WHY do Won