ww Ip ° he Daily KINGSTON, ONTAR ritish 10, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1914 en YEAR B1 NO. 154 TE ---- -- ------------------------------" 9 TO 12 -- PAGES eCizse of" OBUL 20 SFC re al ©2722 LUZITBlh SEL 7erzr2 How the Fatal Curse Put Upon the Emperor Franz Joseph Has Swept His Loved Ones Away in a Tragic Manner The Most Pathetic Figure in European History. Ferdinand I, on Decen cane to t May Heaven and Hell blast your | happiness; may your family be ex terminated: may you be smitten in the persons of those you love best; | pe may your. children 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!" or lon ber 1ephew p King nation ror Fran Jose as the Emperor of gary. The inter these counirie Hungarian It consist trian Fmpire the | Kingdom {two called monarchy of two State the he relations are regulated by the compromise of 1867, which Franz Joseph the common ? the two nations and known in t and in Hurgar The pre throne Hungary This was the cugse pronounced dn and the Emperor Franz by 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 Em peror when he appeared at a State | ball in Vienna / "It will come to pass!" she cried as the attendants dragged her away Surely her words were prophetic for death has come to the Emperor's | @1&htes n years of age when hi best loved relations in a most tragic | Uncle, Ferdinand abdicated manner. To-day we find him totter | ther of Franz Joseph, the Archduke | ing with old age, standing alone like | Francis Charles, would have been the some great tree which a storm has | 0€Xt in line, shorn of its branches | ferred "Nothing is spared me!' | ready | venerable Head of the House Jevera! Hapsburg as he sits in his palace sur rounded by every luxury which weal th ean procure, the most pathetic fi- gure in Eutopean history The recent assassination the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, and his de voted wife by a nineteen-year-old fa- natical Servian adds another chapter to the loug line of Hapsburg trage dies which have Sochaa the world | declaring that had seen a during the past quarter of a century, | While earnestly praying for guidance and the sympathy of the world goes| I the matter. He then told the court! | that the spirit of his father, » late out to the old man who has suffered! "4% the Spirit of his father, the late ' Emperor Francis, had appeared and almost beyond endurance. -- | laid his hand on the head his a . : youthful grandson, Franz Joseph Origin Of Hapsburg House, { This decided the family and ren The house of Hapsburg has an is | Franz Joseph became the ruler i teresting history--almost melodram- ! a-------- atic in its romances, scandals and | tragic deaths. Descendants of Rud | olph of Hapsburg, a German Count born in 1228, and elected King of the Romans in 1237. the royal fam- ily of Austria is among the oldest in Europe, for Count Rudolph fu 1282 bestowed the duchy of Austria upon his son Albrecht, afterward Roman Emperor. About 1740 the male line of the family died out with Ewmper' or Karl VI and his only daughter Maria Theresa married Duke Franz of Lorraine and Tuscany, who after- wards became Franz I of the house of Loraine and the founder of the Hapsburg-Lorraine family. Maria Theresa was succeeded in 1780 by her 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 and reigned until 1835. Hc was maf- ried four times and left a large num- ber of descendants who form the pre- sent Imperial House. Franz I, as he called himself, was the first sover eign who assumed the title of Emper- or or Kaiser of Austria, doing so af- tor being compelled by Napoleon in 1806, to renbunce the imperial crown of Rome, which had been prac- tically in the Hapsburg family for hia ha ad Already Coupled with is he dy coupled wit of B of the Romans that Joseph tria he peror A pos King ent peror can to the was King | took the oath of the Hur | stitution June 1867 10 crowned of Sth but the royal family pre young "Franzi," who had made mark as a times his mother, the al cries the ol duchess Sophie, had given |} the honor which him and by her he | Instructions in every brane { bradence. He also became shot and a fearless un | Archduches s ruled the father a j as the son, and she knew that the | of was to orders received n of an experi The! wey fur of horsen ther was totally unfit for the crown | She finally worried her husband into! he visioh Reigns Over A Mixed People. Austria received him with frantic | delight, and the day of his accession was one of joy throughout the land { The young Emperor even at that age had a remarkable conception of duty which has served him well during his long and checkered reign. When first addressed as "your majesty" he | turned pale and murmured "Fare "Well to my youth!" His foot was al- | ready on the thorny path which he! has unflinchingly trodden for sixty-! six years. During this time he- has | reigned over morg guan fifty million | people consisting 6 Austrians, Hun- | garians, Bohemians, Bosnians . and | Herzegovinians. They are his sub-! Jects, but besides these a large num- ber of Germans, Italians, Russians, | Swiss, Roumanians, British, French, | Montenegrin, Turkish, Servian, Bul-| garian Leichtensteiners and over three thousands Americans live in | his domain | His troubles began early in his reign, as a few months after he came to the throne dissensions arose throughout the land which were fol- | lowed by external aggressions. i The Curse In 1853. In 1853 the list of tragic incidents which have marred his reign began when an attempt was ma ! YN Car rl AL Tem 2k 5 or rs C% Cre Foe FE SrAwsme er Corde ehe Hots > _Frrbotihie Coe prices 2 > FRY IO, 2c Lia (2) AChE 72 (3) Zr2206 rc D2 Fm // AR # am 5) For NS Cy Zmmpemor Fmsrnz Josep pl - Fromm & Dimer nfrm ire LZ rome! Corer FE Lrerizaz daily walk on which use ttended by Count O'Ix topped oldier sudden] i of the nearhy ps leadir t the En fe. The knife vastion and de: peror a vic lent blow with 2 blow was at thie neck, < behind the ear and did not in a serious wound, although the concussion caused partial blindne The man proved to he a but it sirn ined i ane or a time Hungarian named Lebenz trade. He determined to kill wd walled ome time When: the sd the alway hy declared that he v the Empero for the opportnnit Emperor ha of a ren ruler set cover people have votion hown to their in build a church comme ZR L722 OCI 0mS os &npre or ZR Oe Eh ot She Appes red Zoller cu ¢ z Zr OTC > FPL CPO0I22 rOrNle Dorrit of rhe oC le sear fs Frvroz Tos ens Priore &C Budapest HW Reme [He is Krom =o Zhe 2 their vouthful! monarch's preserva- ied during one of the Hung tion, and the Votivkirche, a master- | risings. piece of modern Gothic art, was the | a result. This beautiful church rears | Marries Princess Eliza its slender, gracefy! towers on one of When "Frangi," as. she of the widest streets of the Austrian {ately called © her son, capital and is always an object of the | twenty-three, greatest interest to the traveller. | courting expedition to the The Emperor was kindly disposed | the Duke of Bavaria, who toward 'his subjects, even the Hun { ried her 'younger sister. garian rebels, and tried to.win them. | daughters of the Duke was but the -Archduchess Sophie had | cess Heleng, who was just formed the policy of his reign cruel, heartless policy which carried | would fall in Jove death and exile to many. She was|but she 'was tily' disliked by the and | ment for he : 3 i WAS she set about to find| American {him a wife, so she sent him on al Aniong the --aland the mother hoped that her son with this princess, destined to disappoint- little attention to HIRE or Zar 28zr3p arian up-| Elizabeth, who. was then only fifteen {years of age. A year later they were | married and the beautiful princess beth. {charmed all Austria and Hungary as affection- | well. She bore the name of the pa- about | iron saint of the latter. and w en she came with the Emperor to d- apest the wildest enthusiasm pre- home of |vailed. She studied their language had mar | and spoke it like a native. Even to- day she is known as the good angel of Hungary, and a special museum has been established where articles which at one Oh Sonu 10. ber are on exhibition. a nab vi- vacions disposition the new Empress atiquetts and did a Jot of uBRSARS. of the Prin- nineteen, = foe LTO oF pemmee TRE Arrdre moe Chr Bers QU Ze Dylwrre sr ire, T7900 Zr220em or 5 piace rm drabue. Boliernurs Zhe Ernperror Fr rn z Joseph grief fhe AZlernpt wwe MNwde EO Ao Srrnste Azr7 222 EEE Tm 0rn 522 OI Austr rern mr but delighted Hungarians A time the couple unclouded happine were born as the The oldest, the | Archduche Sophie, named for | grandmother, died of typhoid lin childhood. The disease was { contraeted from drinking water sent | from a Vienna spring. In way it became uncorked and spoiled, but | the nurse did not discover it until the child was taken iil | The second child, the Archdu | Gisela, is now the Queen of | The other two children Archduchess Marie Valerie, came the wife of Franz | Archduke of. Austria | Prince Rudolph, the throne | I'he Empress: {the birth of the Crown Prince { had to spend much of her time away j from the Emperor at the spa of Europe Then the Archduke Maximiliar { was persuadéd to go to Mexico 14 | Tule over that restless land. He wa: urged to do this by his wife the Em- press Charlotte, and his mother, the Archduchess Sophie, the latter being most insistent in her demands de claring that shq wanted to be known royalty, the pleasure For of led an exist Four loving { | ult | children res | their union her early some Bavaria were who be alvator heir different | the Curse Qf the Hapsburgs fell once more, for Maximilian was executed by the ungrateful Mexicans and his wife, thé beautiful Empress Char- 'Death Of The Crown Prince. The hopes of the Emperor now be "amo centered on the Crown Prince, who grew to manhood universally be loved by all his subjects. Always of-a shy and retiring disposition, the young prince spent much of his time in shooting and became a taxider- mist of no mean ability, mounting up the results of his shooting expedi- tions for the National Museum. He married the Princess Stephanie, the second daughter of King Leopold II, of Belgium. There seems to have been very little love in the matter for the Crown Prince seemed to have been infatuated with the Baroness Marie Vestera. In 1889 the Curse fell once more on the Hapsburg, for the heir to the throne was found dead at his hunting lodge at Meyerling not very far from Vienna. Beside him was the dead body of the Baroness. All sorts of rumors were afloat as to how 'the couple met death, and it was finally given out as suicide, but as suicide Ww.8 so abhorrent tothe Catholic church the Empress refused to be- lieve that her son had taken his life. ] rer, no effort was made to little | fever | hess | the | Tuscany and | to the | lost her health after | and | known in Austria as "the Meyerling ters Fhe death of the Crown Prince had an alarming effect on the Empress, who was devoted to her son She never appeared at Court after his death, but wandered from place to place her sorrow. The Emperor, did all in his power to lift the veil of melancholy which seemed to envel- ope her, but without avail, and to use my in | the language of a noted Hungarian {| writer The sorrowing woman in black wandered from country to coun though a dread shadow pur- her." ir a ed Empress Assassinated. the Hapsburg was destined to claim her in its clutches, ind this occurred while she was .in Switzerland trying to recover health and strength to be present at the Emperor's Jubilee in 1898 Walking on the Quai de Mont Blanc in Gene- The curse of { Va. accompanied only by her lady-in- | Waiting, the Countess. Sztaray, she | Was stabbed by an Italian anarchist, | attempted as the mother of two Emperors. But | lotte, ended her days in a mad house. | | i who used a sharpened shoe awl as a Weapon driving it into the heart of hig victim. By a strange coincidence It was very like the knife used years before when Franz Joseph's life was The dress worn by the Empress at the time of her death is one of the relics preserved at ._the Elizabeth Museum in Budapest. Only a tiny blood stain appears upon the gown, the Empress having died of internal hemorrhage. : This seemed to be the crowning sorrow of the mahy which had fal- len upon thé Emperor, and those who know him best déclare that he has | never been the same since the "Gene- va tragedy." On the day of the fu- neral the Emperor. instituted in mem- ory of the Empress "They Order of Elizabeth," for women of all ranks who have devoted themselves to re- ligious, humanitarfan or charitable works or objects. The first Grand Cross was bestowed upon the Coun- tess Sztaray,:who was with the Em« press at the time of her death. Other Sorrows. But the trials of the Emperor were not over, for a few years later his favorite sister-in-law, the 'Duch- ess d'Alencon, lost her life in the great fire which swept over a charity bazaar in Paris and orly a short time afterward one of his nieces was burn- ed to death at the Palace of Schoen- brua 4 img