Show I 1 FINE HEIRS TO A THRONE early exploits of the two sons son of th the archduke karl ludwig the two young austrian princes who by the death of their father archduke charles louls louis are brought into the line of immediate succession bear a popular I 1 ill repute which would have been excessive even in the munich or stuttgart of a generation ago says the saturday review both are reputed to be unable to read and write correctly any one of the languages tin in which an austrian ruler is supposed to be proficient after the suicide ol of archduke rudolph in 1889 an eff effort 0 rt was made to train the mind of the elder of these cousins the archduke I 1 francis ferdinand he was wag sent on a 1 tour around the world and the pretense was carried to the length of issuing a record of observations which he was wa said to have written all that he really derived from the journey journe y was a malady from which he is now slowly dying I 1 1 he is the prince who scandalized scandalised ed vienna in his youth by halting a ant funeral procession which he met M et while riding and compelling the mourners to hold the bier while he leaped his horse backward and forward over the coffin his uncle the emperor thrashed him with a stick for this thia exploit although he be was at the time a grown man and an officer in the army his brother otto is the hero of another I 1 exploit involving a public insult of the grossest kind to his own wife for which the austrians Aust rians were delighted to learn that he also felt the emperors cane I 1 in explanation though not in defense defene I 1 of their vicious worthlessness it is remembered that these young men man inherit I 1 not only the worst qualities of the I 1 degenerate hapsburg blood but wre are grandsons of that criminal lunatic whom englishmen still remember the I 1 neapolitan bomba 1 |