| Show KINGLY KINDNESS A the austrian monarch provides cah tw the debts of ills it is said in the pittsburgh chronicle telegraph there is a queer feature of austrian army life which is probably not known in america emperor francis joseph turns over every year to the chief of his private cabinet something like for his private fortune this sum is used in paying the debts ot distinguished army officers providing the debts are honorable and the officers are of sufficiently high rank every year the apportionment is exhausted before the end of the year as austrian army officers are proverbially unlucky in finances the distressed officer over his ears in debts and threatened with disgrace makes out a statement of his case which is laid before the old emperors kindly eye if it is made certain that the debba are not gambling debts and were moderately unavoidable so to speak the emperor directs the chief of his private cabinet to grant relief athla custom was established long ago but the emperor can afford it without having to deny himself of necessary food and clothing for the private fortune of the he inherited from his father was 18 and he gets a salary of a year for ruling austria next to the czar of russia he is the richest monarch 0 europe |
