Show L I t I 1 T rc I 4 i ii J IN E EV i wJ O qi N IN r Is V T rJ X P PF i 1 RIAN LD F 11 r 5 Il 1 rD g i 1 i j 1 Sophie r I 4 1 4 I t I 14 V t t J JI k Ig I 41 i J I fl L I bc V I j 11 i 11 i u im Il I 11 7 t t I Emperor Fr Francis nci Joseph 3 u 1 js a b of I tand tM the J rIa lower 1 CIP i le i n that the t dismemberment of the fl A Arlan wilt be b brit t about bout by a woman Since I Ref the tM t of iC f the th government If 0 U tt kae ka happ ne l more mori than thin once that th tb pre pie for It II reems to have haYe bees been that originally orI has appeared to 10 be ha on Oft th the I point nt of Immediate fulfillment The TM prevent 1 suite tt h nf 4 affair m In the empire revives revive the consideration of a similar The critical condition of the old uld Id emperor em emperors health Ith points I Inevitably to the Ih near fear approach of the moment which ha long Ion been dreaded dredd by all friends of 01 peaceful union In tn both beth kingdoms kingdom It I a true that arrangements arrangement have hs been made mad to secure ur a harmonious trans t mINIon inhales of the n and end the representatives of both kingdom kl have heYe i rett ed them and have haYI hosed boond them selve el by us Ga tn to Me em that they I ate are carried CI out to the lbs letter All AllIn the chanc s In Europe Bur are re wander wanderIng w wI wanderIng Ing I whether or not DOt n u the em makers maker mak will be lie able to deliver the good goodAn An A It I Ii really 1 om em aM of the most moet uncertain II tAtS tain political tu of o modem mod times time tl and md a women woman w good woman too tot I the Innocent cause call of It Had lied liedthe the tb man maD who afterward became heir apparent to the tb Austrian throne walk walked ed Id discreetly In the path marked out for royal toaI Austrian all alt might t twell have ha been banS well welt lied Had he be selected for fOl forM M his Pta Ule companion the daughter of the tI Moet unimportant royalty In the At AL AIde de 4 Ootha all I might mt have gem geman OM on an ae es merry mn y a as a marriage heft bell This heir to one of ol the lb most moet ancient aAlt threes three oa us earth had no 0 taste lUte for lor lorIa con la in a atile the tile magnitude 1 of ci hta bla hi coming greatness r S I l Il I I I t C 61 i C I II II I i 11 II II II t b I I 1 II Q 7 k ci Archil liste U e Carl Francis J of Francis fIls He ii H to have baye had still sitU lee I tot tor er the lie lielet society let of ot o maidens n endowed with the heaves heaven born right ht to wear a crown n nTo To the infinite dismay of his hi family and aad to the t Intense It disgust and nd disappointment of those t who ho bad had been bean hop hoping ing that the vexatious question of ot the would not Dot come tm up again In for lor at least lea l ast a A century he bt proceeded In full daylight and nd with his b eyes eye wide wl open OP to fall jm toY love with wit Sophie gho IIo ho tek isk a pretty Bohemian Bohemia girl rl of good goodenough enough eso family but wt with wi no IMI rank worth wortha a The U Sift Sto Wont woI of ail la aa the opinion of his hta h I class ae married mamed hit her At the time tim tI m It wa was w regarded a U as a most moat unfortunate complication but when t b by the itu death th of ot his hta cousin RU lt ihU Ihie Ihl matrimonially Frank i h Ferdi Ferdinand nand nad became heir beir apparent It II t expand expanded ed eel to the tM magnitude of a catastrophe Something had bad to be done donto The ec ecclesiastical C magnate of ot o the realm Im stood ready to 10 divorce him but hut he de declined d dined their kind ocee and nd declared that be he hail had not the slightest Idea of making I a change c In hi domestic ar arrangement ta taNo Wow Now No this same earns Francis Ferdinand ne eero ma to have hav been thoroughly disliked by pretty p UJ nearly everybody budy In both kingdoms kingdom kl since hta hili hi early boyhood HI Rim Hla uncle the emperor has ba always found him uncongenial ali I has ham seen a lit itt litlie lit lie an ax a Ihl of hulk him hi III The court meg mag magnates nates hay hae ha always al held themselves aloof and Ms his hi name neme Inspires no en enthusiasm thum In the general nral public The Austrian AI have hae never forgives forgiven fo him for hta hili hi marriage 1 and end the Hungarian o de do detest det test t him for lor hi his hie lack of sympathy with their Interest t He Ma H ha hu carried hi hIs hili an anti ti ar prejudices prejudice so eo far a as actually to refuse rule to learn leena the language al ci although though the old emperor specks speaks u It Uk like Uka a aU native Dative Francis Ferdinand Is III I not a man mati of or marked intellectual force The Thu em sin emperor prot I la Is proficient I la in the Romance languages cad aad a In English but bait the heir apparent converses only la in German I l Il C 61 i l i c C t t Heir Apparent at n Colonel 01 Guards urd 45 and Bohemian which he has learned from hi lIJa accomplished wit He lie H seems seem to have halt no especial of any a kind no ao Interest lilt In hi science and aDd very ety Indifferent taste tame In moat most matters matt hi bl him obstinate refusal to divorce hi h Bohemian wife must mI t be set t I down to his hta hl everlasting credit Rather than han I relinquish her he b made a formal fn I and solemn renunciation of her br rubLe rip righta a queen and of the claims claim of her chil children hll dren to the tle succession According to the th present arrangement when he be becomes becom becomes comes com emperor she cbs he cannot sit It on oa the throne bi hIm at government or bul h functions function She will have haY no flO accredited i at Ct court She thEl cannot annat take part pert In or social fume function tion Uon nor can cn her hr children She Bhe Sh has baa hano no better position than that of nf merge morga morganatic wife wi To make her social position a little less Ie trying the good natured nata emperor bestowed on her hr the title Ut of Princess Princes Hohenberg and her tier children will bear that name instead of 0 that of their father fatherA A Woman W hIM Sen eis R RIll This Ill estimable woman Is I entirety entirely worthy of if all the sacrIfices sacrifice her high bh highborn highborn born husband huband baa has made m for her She he ha always tarried carried herself b with admi edmi admirable I ruble rable dignity under the embarrass embarrassments meats ments which her peculiar relation have entailed and she to I universally respected for lor her he character and her Jer graces grace cae Anomalous aa a It may aa aad seem she Mt doe d not DOt share abare her husband nd un ua unpopularity popularity The Th old od emperor I is fond Jond ol of her and aad her and she ahe he Is I tar far more no welcome at the palace Paine then than her 0 7 u L Archduke OTTO In the thEl Austrian capital capitalI she ehe sheI I more popular than any nit of 01 the royal roal archduchesses and In Budapest u peat he heh heh h ha many Influential friends In I Bo Do Bohemia BohemIa hemia hernia her bet native country she ahe e I Is Idol Idolised IdolIsed I la In deference to her tor wi wish Francis Ferdinand ha baa purchased large alga I rotates estates In Bohemia end and nd the family spends much time on them The heir presumptive according to the present arrangement I is Carl Cart Fran Franeta eta cli III son Ron of the tile Archduke Otto another nephew of 01 the tho old emperor who died recently The young ou archduke la t 4 th eighteen h years FUr of age ap and aad J I s reputed to be bo A d level headed youngster JOUter with a good GOd understanding of what I Is expect expert expected ed ad of him and nd a laudable determine tine Uon of at Hying up to It ItA ItA itA A ul Were It ft not ot or r Sophie Chotek Chot and her four bright children hren the Archduke Carl Francis might look I forward to the prospect of ruler ru of ot the em empire m vice pire without any more maim disquieting dl possibility than the ordinary uncertainty uncertainty taint of human vent event eVEln There ite seem ma mato mat to t be a grave rave t on In the Hun Run Hungarian arian garian on account of the tb heir apparent marriage The Th com corn compart pat part between the th two nation provides provide that the of the emperor I shall hall also be king of Hungary HUll but bat no AD mention In 4 made n of ot the queen Although the heir to the throne of Austria may ma not marry a woman who In ii I not lIot of royal blood the king kl of Hun Hungary Hu HuI Hungary gary I may marry whomsoever he ha wishes even a peasant mIn If it he chooses choose and she will be bl hi his queen It U Is I not at t all 11 certain certa that the people of ot Hungary will be inu Influenced need by b their Austrian neighbors neighbor to toden deny den Sophie Chotek right rl ht to the tha throne or to debar her lIer children child from the Hungarian Hu succession clon It U t I be believed lIved herd that the ta th astute Magyar Ma ar poll pail politician will seine I am as this Ihl tack lck k of cot or orn n in the laws law of the two countries to exact favorable terra terms te from the tile heir Mir when he I is proclaimed emperor and that In n return Tits hi I wife will be declared queen Quee of Hungary Hul Hulon on the tile other hand the Archduke Francin Ferdinand la Ia I no eo unpopular in III Hungary H that It t i doubtful whether whet either cither the tile parliament or the th P 1 WIN WIll ever accept 8 allt him us em It IKI ha has never made I rny nv ny attempt to n i iI them cad I they the d I not know khoa him has never I Hun Bilan i writy and as He a it II inn my ha has sever never even visited flu h neb geh an in on m hi hie HI t i cult nit t tit to explain mv on the th groni Kro Krothe i ithe the lb antipathy between 1 lIn the th tw te 1 i iha ha has Influenced him to that ext exi n at Hume Hem U Jt I ii true tru Indeed that In h h hi hit hIot t equally unsuccessful in III inlag Inlag lag the affection of hi hie own n n men num He Me Is I cold m tI I IIII III in I hi Ida prejudice He lie H i peli nd i hi ilia time Um on his hie hI form faun t hernia hunting In III remote III glens and nd In Iii performing tin flo military duties lr r f 1 i i iha i ier ha baa ev er r had any ony Inti I always Iwa found lound the society of 1 and nd children quite quit ruffle i m reserved said and rather u ion 11 i Perhaps there I is III no other oth m FUji u trian public life of whom h known by hy the general nral puM puhi The relations between n si 1 i Hungary ry are Rn very v mu h M I i r i bond that holds them to tug i years old jid but It If Ic I on only nl I I Influence I of the tile old emp Im p i i prevented serious rlou II I In such respect and anil rev ret rl i rj n nha ha hu always 1 been able to I 0 i i Inevitable collision but bill it i ito to to be feared leared that It will the reign of hi i iA II IIA A Man e f With the aged king of j jel el d Joseph romaine remains HS n th lii t II generation of ruler rulers will i i Christian of Denmark v England Victor Enu Emma nil i Louis Lou Napoleon of From Fran HI 01 i iI I J of Germany With Hi ih Queen Victoria he M hue has hll MIKH IK than any sovereign ov of in 01 i i 1 this being the t y v rule and the mi to toof I of hi birth He H ha has h been a man of oi f III m row rows Few rw men have havA u jj many tragedies His HI w If I tat fill Elisabeth was wu l i at t Geneva Genev In inverne ivi I SI i verne son Archduke A i mUtt suicide in n It mot n t nero ncr Maximilian his hie bev tI was we w shot bot by the Mexican Mex n r rat rat rat at Ferdinand I better known a John Orth ed mysteriously and not hint been heard of him Ludw Ludwig lg only surviving brother 1 I h In tD a sickening KM It mi tI dragged Into a police pollee court coutt in III mom moa malefactor tor Tet Yet It I is known throughout extent event of tile the great t empire i r crowning grief of this kIMl pi i I is that Itt Sophie Cholik Choi k i out Gilt a drop rap of royal roal blood III in h i I GORG H K I 1 U |